Top "Cobol" questions

How do you go about defining a two-dimensional MxN array in Cobol of which both M and N are of …

I will read a sequential file which include some string such as "79.85", "1000", "212.34". I want to convert the alphanumeric into number …

I'm just learning COBOL; I'm writing a program that simply echos back user input. I have defined a variable as: …

What is COBOL used for?

I have the following variable in COBOL program which gets its value from a file, when it is read: 01 Employee-number …

Even though we have languages like C++, Java, Python, etc., why is COBOL still a preferred language in the business …

Is there a way to read COBOL data in a Java program? More concretely I'm confronted with the following case: …

I am a graduate student majoring in Computer Science. My department teaches the majority of its courses using Java (though …

Why does COBOL have both SECTION and PARAGRAPH? Can anybody explain why the designers of COBOL created both SECTIONs and …

I'm starting to learn about COBOL. I have some experience writing programs that deal with SQL databases and I guess …