Rational Developer for System z
Enterprise PL/I for z/OS, Version 3.8, Language Reference Manual

Special characters

Table 3 shows the special characters, their PL/I meanings, and their ASCII and EBCDIC values in hexadecimal notation.

Table 3. Special character equivalents
Character Meaning Default EBCDIC Hex Value Default ASCII Hex Value
b Blank 40 20
= Equal sign or assignment symbol 7E 3D
+ Plus sign 4E 2B
- Minus sign 60 2D
* Asterisk or multiply symbol 5C 2A
/ Slash or divide symbol 61 2F
( Left parenthesis 4D 28
) Right parenthesis 5D 29
, Comma 6B 2C
. Point or period 4B 2E
' Single quotation mark 7D 27
" Double quotation mark (Note 1) 7F 22
% Percent 6C 25
; Semicolon 5E 3B
: Colon 7A 3A
¬ Not symbol, exclusive-or symbol Note 1 5F 5E
& And symbol 50 26
| Or symbol (Note 1) 4F 7C
> Greater than symbol 6E 3E
< Less than symbol 4C 3C
_ Break character (underscore) 6D 5F
Note 1:

The or (|), the not (¬) and the quote (") symbols have variant code points. You can use the compiler options OR, NOT and QUOTE to define alternate symbols to represent these operators. For more information about these options, refer to the Programming Guide.


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