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Some RM-COBOL Reserved Words
ACCEPT MERGE SUM
ADD MESSAGE TABLE
ADVANCING MODE TAPE
AFTER MULTIPLY TEST
ALL NEGATIVE TEXT
ALPHABET NEXT THAN
ALSO NO THEN
ALTERNATE NOT THROUGH
AND NUMBER THRU
ANY OCCURS TIME
ARE OF TO
AREA OFF TOP
ASCENDING OMITTED TRUE
ASSIGN ON TYPE
AT OPEN UNIT
AUTHOR OR UNTIL
BEFORE OTHER UP
BLANK OUTPUT USE
BLOCK PAGE USING
BOTTOM PERFORM VALUE
BY PIC VALUES
CALL PICTURE WHEN
CANCEL PLUS WITH
CD POINTER WRITE
CHARACTER POSITION ZERO
CLOSE POSITIVE ZEROS
COLUMN PROCEDURE ZEROES
COMMA PROGRAM
COMMON PROGRAM-ID
COMMUNICATION QUOTE
COMP RANDOM
COMPUTE READ
CONTAINS RECEIVE
CONFIGURATION RECORD
CONTINUE REDEFINES
CONTROL REFERENCE
COPY REMAINDER
COUNT REPLACE
DATA REPORT
DATE RESERVE
DAY RESET
DELETE RETURN
DESTINATION REWIND
DISABLE REWRITE
DISPLAY RIGHT
DIVIDE RUN
DOWN SAME
ELSE SEARCH
ENABLE SECTION
END SELECT
ENVIRONMENT SENTENCE
EQUAL SET
ERROR SIGN
EXIT SEQUENTIAL
EXTERNAL SIZE
FLASE SORT
FILE SOURCE
LENGTH SPACE
LESS STANDARD
LIMIT START
LINE STOP
LOCK STRING
LOW-VALUE SUBTRACT
Please note that this is ONLY a partial listing. The actual list
is about three times longer. At first look, the new COBOL
programmer thinks that these reserved words will be a headache but this is not
true! The COBOL compiler will warn you with an appropriate message when
you try to use any of these reserved words as variable names; and you shall change
the name accordingly. DO NOT TRY TO MEMORIZE THESE RESERVED WORDS!
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