6.1.8.9.4 File Position Indicator
The file position indicator is a conceptual entity used in this document to facilitate exact specification of the next record (or alternatively under AIX, OS/2, and Windows, the previous record) to be accessed within a given file during certain sequences of input-output operations. The setting of the file position indicator is affected only by the OPEN, CLOSE, READ and START statements. The concept of a file position indicator has no meaning for a file opened in the output or extend mode.
Statements, sentences, and paragraphs in the Procedure Division are executed sequentially, except when a procedure branching statement such as
X EXIT, GO TO, PERFORM, GOBACK, or STOP is used.
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