Re: CL equivalent of EVALUATE -- COBOL400-L

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Subject: Re: CL equivalent of EVALUATE
From: Daniel Volkmann <daniel.volkmann@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2010 09:25:09 -0800
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I believe you are referring to the SELECT WHEN command.

On 12/2/2010 8:39 AM, Chris Chambers wrote:

Is there a CL command which is similar to the COBOL command EVALUATE ?

I believe a new CL command came in at about 5.4 which enabled a programmer to avoid torturous
IF, ELSE, IF, ELSE. IF, ELSE strings.

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