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6.2.32 SEARCH Statement



The SEARCH statement searches a table for an element that satisfies the specified condition, and adjusts the associated index to indicate that element.


    ___ Format 1--Serial Search ____________________________________________ 
   |                                                                        |
   | >>__SEARCH__identifier-1__ ___________________________ ______________> |
   |                           |_VARYING__ _identifier-2_ _|                |
   |                                      |_index-name-1_|                  |
   |                                                                        |
   | >__ _____________________________________ ___________________________> |
   |    |_ ____ __END__imperative-statement-1_|                             |
   |      |_AT_|                                                            |
   |                                                                        |
   |    <_______________________________________________                    |
   | >____WHEN__condition-1__ _imperative-statement-2_ _|_________________> |
   |                         |_NEXT-SENTENCE__________|                     |
   |                                                                        |
   | >__ ____________ ___________________________________________________>< |
   |    |_END-SEARCH_|                                                      |
   |                                                                        |
   |________________________________________________________________________|

    ___ Format 2--Binary Search ______________________________________________________________________ 
   |                                                                                                  |
   | >>__SEARCH ALL__identifier-1__ _____________________________________ __________________________> |
   |                               |_ ____ __END__imperative-statement-1_|                            |
   |                                 |_AT_|                                                           |
   |                                                                                                  |
   | >__WHEN__ _data-name-1__ ____ __ _EQUAL__ ____ _ __ _identifier-3____________ _ _______________> |
   |          |              |_IS_|  |        |_TO_| |  |_literal-1_______________| |                 |
   |          |                      |_=_____________|  |_arithmetic-expression-1_| |                 |
   |          |_condition-name-1____________________________________________________|                 |
   |                                                                                                  |
   |    <__________________________________________________________________________________           |
   | >____ ______________________________________________________________________________ _|________> |
   |      |_AND__ _data-name-2__ ____ __ _EQUAL__ ____ _ __ _identifier-4____________ _ _|            |
   |             |              |_IS_|  |        |_TO_| |  |_literal-2_______________| |              |
   |             |                      |_=_____________|  |_arithmetic-expression-2_| |              |
   |             |_condition-name-2____________________________________________________|              |
   |                                                                                                  |
   | >__ _imperative-statement-2_ __ ____________ _________________________________________________>< |
   |    |_NEXT SENTENCE__________|  |_END-SEARCH_|                                                    |
   |                                                                                                  |
   |__________________________________________________________________________________________________|
identifier-1
Can be:

Identifier-1 must refer to all occurrences within the table element; that is, it must not be subscripted or reference-modified.

The Data Division description of identifier-1 must contain an OCCURS clause with the INDEXED BY phrase. For Format-2, the Data Division description must also contain the KEY IS phrase in its OCCURS clause.

SEARCH statement execution modifies only the value in the index-name associated with identifier-1 (and, if present, of index-name-1 or identifier-2). Therefore, to search an entire 2- to 7-dimensional table, it is necessary to execute a SEARCH statement for each dimension. Before each execution, SET statements must be executed to reinitialize the associated index-names.

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