ILE COBOL Language Reference


Separators

A separator can be a single punctuation character or a string of punctuation characters.

The following is a list of the COBOL separator characters and their meaning.

 
Space
Comma
Period
Semicolon
(
Left parenthesis
)
Right parenthesis
"
Quotation mark
==
Pseudo-text delimiter
:
Colon

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'
Apostrophe
B"
Opening delimiter for Boolean literal
X"
Opening delimiter for hexadecimal nonnumeric literal
G"
Opening delimiter for DBCS literal
N"
Opening delimiter for DBCS literal
NX"
Opening delimiter for national hexadecimal literal
Z"
Opening delimiter for null-terminated nonnumeric literal

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