The CREATE Collection Statement

Creates or constructs an instance of a list or dictionary.

General Formats

Where: identifier is the name of the list or dictionary collection type.

Example

The following declares and creates a list collection: and then writes an element to the list:

       declare stringList as list[string]
       create stringList
       write stringList from "item 0"

See also the Collections sample, which is available from Start > All Programs > Micro Focus Enterprise Developer > Samples > Visual COBOL Samples, under COBOL for JVM.