What is the difference beetween Arrays and Tables in Cobol?
please dont give the answer that arrays in cobol
terminology is called tables......

Answer Posted / jeet

Arrays are basically used to store data which are of
similar type in contiguos memory locations.
Tables on the other hand you can think it as a list which
is used for lookup/referencing, for example when doing a
SEARCH/SEARCH ALL.

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