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IBM Extension

National Literals

National literals can be specified in the following places:
  • In the VALUE clause of national data description entries
  • As the sending item in the procedure division. For more information, see MOVE Statement.
  • As an operand in the relation condition
  • As an argument to the intrinsic functions than support national data.
Start of changeILE COBOL provides two national literal formats:
  • Basic national literals
  • National hexadecimal literals
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The figurative constant SPACE/SPACES, ALL SPACE/SPACES can be a national literal. SPACE is single byte UCS-2 space (NX"0020").

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