Perform with times option, COBOL Programming

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PERFORM WITH TIMES OPTION:

The format of a PERFORM TIMES statement is as shown below:

Illustration:  

A)  Perform the para-2 5 times.

In this situation the specified para-2 will be constantly executed 5 times.

 B)  Perform the para-2 through para-5 n times.

In this situation the specified range of all the paragraphs from para-2 to para-5 will be constantly executed n times. Note that the value of n must be available before this statement gets executed.

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