CONDITION - COBOL Programming:

The condition is an entity which at one point of time can have only one of the two values - true or false. As we already know that, the IF verb makes use of the conditions. In the COBOL, a condition can be any one of the following:

1) Relational condition

2) Sign condition

3) Class condition

4) Condition-name condition

5) Negated simple condition and 

6) Compound condition.

 

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