1 new exercise: binary-search

[kapitaali]

Hi,

please find my exercise to the COBOL track: binary-search

no GOBACKs were used, instead EXIT PROGRAM was used (hopefully cobolcheck does not warn)

[kapitaali]

It appears the .cut file was an old version, fixed on my branch.

[axtens]

Regarding

01 Teibel. 
         02 Taulukko               PIC 999 OCCURS 1 TO 20
                                   DEPENDING ON IDX.        

I wonder how you'd go with an INDEXED BY and then you can SET index-name TO value and then SET index-name UP BY 1 or SET index-name DOWN BY 1

[kapitaali]

I haven't had the need to do any INDEX operations like SEARCH. But subscripts could be changed to INDEXes if needed. The downside is that if any arithmetic is used to compute index values, only subscripts can be computed.

[axtens]

Suggestion only. As long as it works if the bottom line

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