What are the types of performs in COBOL?
How does perform thru work, give example.

Answer Posted / venkat

perform will be useful when you want to execute a set of statements in multiple places of the program. write all statements in one paragraph and invoke it using perform wherever needed.

perform contain 7 types of statements.

* simple perform
* inline perform
* perform thru para
* perform untill para
* perform n.times para
* perform varying thru para
* perform para before/after para

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