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Statements - Alphabetic List

Statements
ACCEPT Statement
Takes data keyed at the console or supplied by the operating system and makes it available to the program in a specified data item.
ADD Statement
Adds two or more numeric operands and stores the result.
ATTACH Statement
Attaches a delegate, a method group or an anonymous method to an event.
CREATE Collection Statement
Creates or constructs an instance of a list or dictionary.
COMPUTE Statement
Assigns to one or more data items the value of an arithmetic expression.
CONTINUE Statement
The CONTINUE statement is a no operation statement, indicating that no executable statement is present.
DECLARE Statement
Declares one or more local variables within the procedure division body. The scope of any inline local variable is from the point of declaration until the end of the innermost containing block, where paragraphs, sections and the whole method are considered to be blocks.
DELETE Collection Statement
Deletes an element from the list or dictionary.
Detach Statement
Detaches a delegate or a method group from an event.
DISPLAY Statement
Displays the specified data items.
DIVIDE Statement
Divides one numeric data item into others and sets the values of data items equal to the quotient and remainder.
EVALUATE Statement
Describes a multi-branch, multi-join structure, which can evaluate multiple conditions. The subsequent action of the run-time element depends on the results of these evaluations.
EXIT Statement
Causes an exit from a perform loop, method or iterator.
GOBACK Statement
Causes a return from a method.
IF Statement
Evaluates a condition and takes subsequent action depending on whether the value of the condition is true or false.
INSPECT Statement
Provides the ability to perform tally, replace, tally and replace, and convert and tally trailing operations on a data item.
INVOKE Statement
Invokes a method.
MOVE Statement
Transfers data to one or more data areas.
MULTIPLY Statement
Multiplies numeric data items and sets the values of data items equal to the results.
PERFORM Statement
Controls execution of a statement block in the scope of the PERFORM statement. This statement can also process each element of an array or collection.
RAISE Statement
Raises an exception.
READ Collection Statement
Reads an element in the list or in the dictionary from a given key.
RESET Collection Statement
Deletes all the elements from the list or dictionary.
REWRITE Collection Statement
Overwrites an element in the list or dictionary.
SET Statement
Can set the size of an array; initialize the contents of an array and set the size accordingly; and set the value of a data item or a boolean data item.
SORT Statement
Sorts the elements of a table.
SUBTRACT Statement
Subtracts one, or the sum of two or more, numeric data items from one or more items, and set the values of one or more items equal to the results.
STRING Statement
Concatenates the partial or complete contents of two or more data items into a single data item.
SYNC Statement
Marks a statement block as a critical section by obtaining the mutual-exclusion lock for a given object, executing a block of statements, and then releasing the lock.
TRY Statement
The TRY...CATCH...FINALLY...END-TRY structure is the basis for structured exception handling.
UNSTRING Statement
Separates contiguous data in a sending field and places it into multiple receiving fields.
WRITE Collection Statement
Writes an element to the list or dictionary.

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