Re: PERFORM token (was RE: gnubol: Hacks needed to parse COBOL

[Fred Mobach <fred@mobach.nl>]

"William M. Klein" wrote:

> The statement about a user-defined word following PERFORM being a
> procedure-name is not correct.
>
> Either
>    Perform paragraph-name *> out-of-line PERFORM
>
>         or
>
>    Perform data-name TIMES *> in-line perform
>
> is valid

Not exactly. PERFORM procedure-name-1 [ { THRU | THROUGH } procedure-name-2 ] is
an outline perform. The absence of the procedure name(s) indicates an inline
perform.

Regards,

Fred Mobach



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