Additional Documentation

Do you know COBOL?

Anyone who already knows COBOL can easily use CobolScript with virtually no learning curve. CobolScript has familar COBOL syntax and is ideal for data conversion, batch interfaces, and server-side scripting.

Want more information? The best way to find answers to all of your questions about CobolScript is to take a look at the Developers Guide. This 279 page manual is one of the most well written programming manuals you will find. Seriously, it is a good manual.

Additional CobolScript Features

In addition to the standard language commands and the internet processing commands available in CobolScript, other features provide the means to quickly and easily create programs with a wide range of functionality:

• Internetworking commands such as FTPPUT, FTPGET, SENDMAIL, and GETMAIL for transferring files and emails from within a CobolScript program.
• File processing commands for reading and parsing both fixed-format and delimited data files.
• Flexible naming syntax that allows underscores ( _ ) and dashes ( - ) to be used interchangeably in variable names, to support both modern variable naming as well as COBOL-style variable naming.
• Advanced expression evaluator that does not require explicit spaces between expression components, even for subtraction operations, for programmers who are used to coding mathematical expressions in C or similar languages.
• Financial functions for calculating annuities and depreciation.
• Scientific, stochastic, and other higher math functions.
• Metric to English and English to metric system unit conversion functions.
• TCP/IP socket programming commands such as SENDSOCKET and RECEIVESOCKET, for creating client-server communications programs without web server software or FTP configuration.
• DNS commands such as GETHOSTNAME for incorporating internet information retrieval into programs.
• PIC X(n) picture clause that automatically calculates variable size based on VALUE clause, eliminating the need for time-consuming computations with FILLER variables, and an implied version of PIC X(n) that allows the FILLER keyword and picture clause to be eliminated entirely.
• REPLICA variable declaration syntax that permits the same elementary data item to be used in multiple group items.
• EXECUTE command for dynamic statement creation and execution.
• Intelligent error messaging that displays browser-based error messages when running programs from a browser, and text-based error messages when running programs from the command line, thereby speeding the debugging process. Using these CobolScript features, you can develop programs to get and save web pages to text files, transfer files via FTP, send simple emails, retrieve emails, accept data from web page forms, create virtual HTML documents, and perform various file input and output operations.

How do I buy the full version of CobolScript?

You pay $49.95USD through PayPal and after the transaction is complete, you will be directed to a web page where you can download the full version of the CobolScript interpreter.

Please direct any additional questions to deskware @ outlook.com.

Best Regards,

Matt Dean