COBOL Manual for TNS/E Programs (H06.03+)

HP COBOL Manual for TNS/E Programs—520347-003
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Language Elements and
Expressions
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COBOL Character Set
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Character-Strings
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Arithmetic Expressions
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Conditional Expressions
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Concatenation Expressions
See also Section 21, Reserved Words.
COBOL Character Set
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Table 38-1, Alphanumeric Characters (for COBOL Words), on page 38-2
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Table 38-2, Punctuation Characters, on page 38-2
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Table 38-3, Special Characters, on page 38-2
Figure 38-1. COBOL Character Set
COBOL Character Set
Alphanumeric Characters
(for COBOL words)
Letters
(A – Z
a – z )
Digits
(0 – 9)
Hyphen
(–)
Special Characters
Punctuation Characters
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