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procedure division

noun

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  1. The part of a COBOL program containing all the instructions that the computer is to…

    The part of a COBOL program containing all the instructions that the computer is to execute

    • The procedure division contains the imperative, arithmetic, conditional, and other statements that create and manipulate the data.
    • The procedure division contains program logic to compute, manipulate data, and to iterate and branch through program execution.
    • In the following alternative formulation of the procedure division, the PERFORM statement is used to execute a sequence of paragraphs.

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Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for procedure division. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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