Micro Focus Visual COBOL 2.3 Update 2 for Eclipse (Windows) > General Reference > Managed COBOL > Managed COBOL Reference > Statements - Alphabetic List > CREATE Collection Statement

CREATE Collection Statement

Creates or constructs an instance of a list or dictionary.

Context:

    Procedure Division
        Statements

create-collection-statement

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 Visual COBOL > Samples , under COBOL for JVM (Windows) or $COBDIR/demo (UNIX).