Common form of the read statements, COBOL Programming

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Common form of the READ statements:

Format 1 is the common form of the READ statements.

Format 2 is used when the access mode is either random or dynamic. For illustration, assume REL-KEY is the names for the relative file and the relative key data item respectively. The statements below will read the 50th record from the file.

MOVE    50    TO    REL-KEY.

READ    REL-FILE RECORD INVALID-KEY   GO TO PARA-INVALID.

Format 3 of the read statement can be used whenever the access mode is dynamic and the records are to be read successively. 

 


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