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COBOL for Windows, Version 7.5, Language Reference


SYMBOLIC CHARACTERS clause

SYMBOLIC CHARACTERS symbolic-character-1
Provides a means of specifying one or more symbolic characters. symbolic-character-1 is a user-defined word and must contain at least one alphabetic character. The same symbolic-character can appear only once in a SYMBOLIC CHARACTERS clause.

You cannot use the SYMBOLIC CHARACTERS clause if the source text code page is a multibyte code page.

The SYMBOLIC CHARACTERS clause is applicable only to single-byte character sets. Each character represented is an alphanumeric character.

The internal representation of symbolic-character-1 is the internal representation of the character that is represented in the specified character set. The following rules apply:


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