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Re: Call by reference

From: Sivasubrahmanian Ananthakrishnan
> I'm looking for a sample program that uses call by reference. I have a
> array in PGMA that needs to be processed in PGMB. I would like to ignore
> calling the program with the array data itself as a parameter. Instead
> would like to use a pointer. If any of you have a sample program that
> will explain this functionality, it would be of great help. Please help
> with a sample program that uses call by reference

AFAIK, *all* parameters in COBOL are already passed by reference
by default, so it is not quite clear what your problem is...

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