Use of evaluate statement, COBOL Programming

Evaluate is like a case statement & Evaluate stamenet can be used to replace nested Ifs. The difference b/w EVALUATE and case is that there is no 'break' is required for EVALUATE i.e. control comes out of the EVALUATE as soon as one match is made.

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