Wat is the difference between NEXT and CONTINUE statement in
cobol,can any one explain with example.

Answer Posted / girish kanswa

continue means it pass the control to the stmt when it find
explicit scope terminator(end-if,end-perform),and next
sentence means it pass d cntrl to d next sentence when it
finds implicit scope terminator(.)

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