What is an explicit scope terminator?

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What is an explicit scope terminator?..

Answer / mahathiaz

A scope terminator brackets its preceding verb, e.g. IF ..
END-IF, so that all statements between the verb and its
scope terminator are grouped together. Other common COBOL II
verbs are READ, PERFORM, EVALUATE, SEARCH and STRING.

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What is an explicit scope terminator?..

Answer / vampire

scope terminators

2 types

implicit scope terminator

"."----dot
exit.
stoprun.

explicit scope terminator

end-if.
end-search.
end-evaluate

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What is an explicit scope terminator?..

Answer / s.v.venkata sivaprasad

scope terminator is used to terminate the cobol statements
instead of period.
ex perform
st1
end-perform.,

search
st1
end-search.

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