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by UltraSane 40 days ago
Ok. How about

Set x to x + 5
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layer8 40 days ago
That’s pretty much COBOL syntax: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/debug-for-zos/17.0.x?topic=comma...

Except that COBOL doesn’t allow an arithmetic expression there, so you have to write

    COMPUTE X = X + 5.
instead. ;)
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