CL command delimiters

Command delimiters are special characters or spaces that identify the beginning or end of a group of characters in a command.

Delimiters are used to separate a character string into the individual parts that form a command: command label, command name, parameter keywords, and parameter values. Parameter values can be constants, variable names, lists, or expressions. The following figure shows various delimiters for a command.

Command Delimiters

The following delimiters are used in the i5/OS® control language: