CREATE Collection Statement (JVM COBOL)

Creates or constructs an instance of a list or dictionary.

Context:

    Procedure Division
        Statements

create-collection-statement

General syntax of the CREATE statement for instances of lists or dictionaries

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"

Alternatively, the above example can be written simply as follows:

       create stringList as list[string]

See also the Collections sample, which is available from Start > All Programs > Micro Focus Visual COBOL > Samples , under Language Reference for JVM COBOL (Windows) or $COBDIR/demo (UNIX).