/learning-cobol

Primary LanguageC

learning-cobol

A collection of code I'm writing in order to learn cobol. Do not use this code for anything important.

Install cobol Compiler

1. Download gnu-cobol

https://sourceforge.net/projects/open-cobol/

2. Compile and Install

cd gnu-cobol-2.0
./configure
make
sudo make install

Write Programs!

Typical

# compile to executable
cobc -x executable.cob

# compile to lib
cobc lib.cob

Run as Script

#!/usr/local/bin/cobc -xj
       identification division.
       program-id. script1.
       procedure division.
       display "i'm a cobol script"

Compile and Run

$ cob -xj sourcefile.cob

Simple Example

       identification division.
       program-id. module1.
       environment division.
       configuration section.
       repository.
           function all intrinsic.
       procedure division.
       main.
           display "module-id = " module-id.
$ cobc -x module1.cob
$ ./module1
module-id = module1

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