6.1.8.6.3 "COBOL Language Reference" IBM Library Server

6.1.8.6.3 Multiple Results

When an arithmetic statement has multiple results, execution conceptually proceeds as follows:

The statement performs all arithmetic operations to find the result to be placed in the receiving items, and stores that result in a temporary location.
A sequence of statements transfers or combines the value of this temporary result with each single receiving field. The statements are considered to be written in the same left-to-right order as the multiple results are listed.

For example, executing the following statement:


     ADD A, B, C, TO C, D(C), E.

is equivalent to executing the following series of statements:

ADD A, B, C GIVING TEMP. ADD TEMP TO C. ADD TEMP TO D(C). ADD TEMP TO E.

In the above example, TEMP is a compiler-supplied temporary result field. When the addition operation for D(C) is performed, the subscript C contains the new value of C.

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6.1.8.6.3 Multiple Results

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