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special names entry [Cobol/Syntax]
An entry in the SPECIAL-NAMES paragraph of the ENVIRONMENT DIVISION; this entry provides means for specifying the curren ...
special registers [Cobol/Syntax]
Certain compiler-generated storage areas whose primary use is to store information produced in conjunction with the use ...
SPECIAL-NAMES [Cobol/Syntax]
The name of an ENVIRONMENT DIVISION paragraph in which environment-names are related to user-specified mnemonic-names.
structured programming [Cobol/Concept]
A technique for organizing and coding a computer program in which the program comprises a hierarchy of segments, each se ...
subject of entry [Cobol/Syntax]
An operand or reserved word that appears immediately following the level indicator or the level-number in a DATA DIVISIO ...
subprogram [Cobol/Syntax]
See called program.
subscript [Cobol/Syntax]
An occurrence number that is represented by either an integer, a data-name optionally followed by an integer with the op ...
subscripted data-name [Cobol/Syntax]
An identifier that is composed of a data-name followed by one or more subscripts enclosed in parentheses.
substitution character [Cobol/Syntax]
A character that is used in a conversion from a source code page to a target code page to represent a character that is ...
surrogate pair [Cobol/Context]
In the UTF-16 format of Unicode, a pair of encoding units that together represents a single Unicode graphic character. T ...