Another more advanced GnuCOBOL program that uses the COBOL SORT. Pretty nice COBOL!
Sort was so fast on my first test of 5000 records, that I reran on 50,000 records. Still literally ran in the blink of an eye. So I timed it.
bill@billb-MS-7B79 ~/Mystuff/COBOL/progs $ time ./sort01 [GnuCOBOL program]
real 0m0.107s
user 0m0.064s
sys 0m0.040s
bill@billb-MS-7B79 ~/Mystuff/COBOL/progs $
Input file (sample) looks like...
4016772724115827 4BFDestiny Bryanna Hamende 1984-10-118941 E 61 Dr East Berlin PA17316
4866213809365608 4CFAlicia Kendal Chabala 2000-04-229268 W 91 Way Minonk IL61760
4447208205483581 2DMBrayden Zayne Muhammad 1991-09-26231 S 75 St Sulphur LA70664
4831920901606091 5EMNicholas Tony Hochevar 1972-05-197275 NW 179 Av Pacolet SC29372
4866500665561571 1HFAshlyn Cynthia Mccaughan 1969-05-306799 N 171 St Questa NM87556
Sorted (last name, first name) output file (sample) looks like...
Aaberg Kyler 1926-11-13
Aagaard Jalen 2000-06-21
Aagesen Keaton 1951-10-08
Aakhus Alejandro 1944-01-11
Aalbers Julius 1954-04-20