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