RosettaCodeData/Task/Hailstone-sequence/COBOL/hailstone-sequence.cob
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COBOL

identification division.
program-id. hailstones.
remarks. cobc -x hailstones.cob.
data division.
working-storage section.
01 most constant as 1000000.
01 coverage constant as 100000.
01 stones usage binary-long.
01 n usage binary-long.
01 storm usage binary-long.
01 show-arg pic 9(6).
01 show-default pic 99 value 27.
01 show-sequence usage binary-long.
01 longest usage binary-long occurs 2 times.
01 filler.
05 hail usage binary-long
occurs 0 to most depending on stones.
01 show pic z(10).
01 low-range usage binary-long.
01 high-range usage binary-long.
01 range usage binary-long.
01 remain usage binary-long.
01 unused usage binary-long.
procedure division.
accept show-arg from command-line
if show-arg less than 1 or greater than coverage then
move show-default to show-arg
end-if
move show-arg to show-sequence
move 1 to longest(1)
perform hailstone varying storm
from 1 by 1 until storm > coverage
display "Longest at: " longest(2) " with " longest(1) " elements"
goback.
*> **************************************************************
hailstone.
move 0 to stones
move storm to n
perform until n equal 1
if stones > most then
display "too many hailstones" upon syserr
stop run
end-if
add 1 to stones
move n to hail(stones)
divide n by 2 giving unused remainder remain
if remain equal 0 then
divide 2 into n
else
compute n = 3 * n + 1
end-if
end-perform
add 1 to stones
move n to hail(stones)
if stones > longest(1) then
move stones to longest(1)
move storm to longest(2)
end-if
if storm equal show-sequence then
display show-sequence ": " with no advancing
perform varying range from 1 by 1 until range > stones
move 5 to low-range
compute high-range = stones - 4
if range < low-range or range > high-range then
move hail(range) to show
display function trim(show) with no advancing
if range < stones then
display ", " with no advancing
end-if
end-if
if range = low-range and stones > 8 then
display "..., " with no advancing
end-if
end-perform
display ": " stones " elements"
end-if
.
end program hailstones.