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{{works with|OpenCOBOL}}
{{works with|Dell Enterprise COBOL}}
program-id. hello.
procedure division.
display "Hello world!".
stop run.
Using relaxed compilation rules, the hello program can become a single DISPLAY statement.
{{works with|GnuCOBOL}}
display"Hello, world".
prompt$ cobc -x -frelax-syntax -free hello.cob
hello.cob: 1: Warning: PROGRAM-ID header missing - assumed
hello.cob: 1: Warning: PROCEDURE DIVISION header missing - assumed
prompt$ ./hello
Hello, world
''Note how COBOL can handle the DISPLAY reserved word without a space before the quoted string, the quote being a compile time scan delimiter. The full stop period after the single statement is still mandatory, at least for GnuCOBOL and a clean compile to executable.''
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