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procedure division en · NOUN

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1. The part of a COBOL program containing all the instructions that the computer is to execute
   • The procedure division contains program logic to compute, manipulate data, and to iterate and branch through program execution. 1999, Gordon Bitter Davis, The Blackwell encyclopedic dictionary of management information:
   • In the following alternative formulation of the procedure division, the PERFORM statement is used to execute a sequence of paragraphs. 2003, Robert C. Seacord et al., Modernizing legacy systems:
   • The procedure division contains the imperative, arithmetic, conditional, and other statements that create and manipulate the data. 1971, Allen Kent, Harold Lancour, Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science:

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