Working Storage section comes under DATA division. Different datatypes of COBOL are explained here.
Below sample cobol program declares and Displays a working storage variable named ‘MY-STRING’.
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IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. KARTEST3.
* define and use a working storage variable
ENVIRONMENT DIVISION.
DATA DIVISION.
WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
01 MY-STRING PIC X(20) VALUE 'HELLO WORLD ! '.
PROCEDURE DIVISION.
DISPLAY MY-STRING.
GOBACK.
Output of this program will be
HELLO WORLD !
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