COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs

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HP COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs—522555-006
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Range Convention
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If two diagram pieces are separated by a separator character, separating the
syntactic items that they represent by spaces is optional. For example:
means that you type:
MULTIPLY 3,4
or
MULTIPLY 3, 4
•
If a diagram piece is immediately followed by a period, putting spaces between the
syntactic item and the period is optional. For example:
means that you can type:
END PROGRAM SORT.
or
END PROGRAM SORT .
•
Explicit spacing rules given for individual railroad diagrams override the
aforementioned rules.
Range Convention
Ranges include their endpoints unless otherwise noted. For example, “x is in the range
from 0 through 32,767” means that x is greater than or equal to 0 and less than or
equal to 32,767.
Note. Except in literals and PICTURE clauses, HP COBOL treats the comma (,) and
semicolon (;) as equivalents.
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integer1 integer2,
MULTIPLY
PROGRAM
.
program-name
END
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