EXIT statement

Remarks#

The COBOL EXIT statement is a terminating flow control verb.

EXIT comes is a few flavours:

• bare EXIT is a common end point for a series of procedures.
• EXIT PARAGRAPH, EXIT SECTION provides a means of exiting a structured procedure without executing any of the subsequent statements.
• EXIT FUNCTION, EXIT METHOD, EXIT PROGRAM marks the logical end of a module of code.
• EXIT PERFORM breaks out of a inline perform loop.
• EXIT PERFORM CYCLE causes an inline perform loop to begin the next iteration.

EXIT statement

PERFORM VARYING counter FROM 1 BY 1 UNTIL counter > 10
    IF debug-override THEN EXIT PERFORM
    IF counter = 5 THEN EXIT PERFORM CYCLE
    PERFORM some-miracle
END-PERFORM