What is the difference beetween Arrays and Tables in Cobol?
please dont give the answer that arrays in cobol
terminology is called tables......

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What is the difference beetween Arrays and Tables in Cobol? please dont give the answer that arrays..

Answer / obul

Storing the similar type of data in contiguous memory
locations is called an Array and storing the different type
of data in contiguous memory locations is called Table in COBOL.

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What is the difference beetween Arrays and Tables in Cobol? please dont give the answer that arrays..

Answer / jeet

Arrays are basically used to store data which are of
similar type in contiguos memory locations.
Tables on the other hand you can think it as a list which
is used for lookup/referencing, for example when doing a
SEARCH/SEARCH ALL.

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What is the difference beetween Arrays and Tables in Cobol? please dont give the answer that arrays..

Answer / ravendra singh

we can use subscript with array but in the other hand with
table we can use indexing. we can perform search with array
by using subscript but with the table we can use both
subscript and the indexing searching an element into table.

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