A PICTURE character-string consists of symbols that are composed of the currency symbol and certain combinations of characters in the COBOL character set.
Any punctuation character that appears as part of the specification of a PICTURE character-string is not considered as a punctuation character, but rather as a symbol used in the specification of that PICTURE character-string. (A chart of PICTURE clause symbols appears in Table 13.)
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