COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs

Intrinsic Functions

HP COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs—522555-006

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CHAR Function

CHAR, an alphanumeric function, returns a character whose ordinal number in the

program collating sequence is the value of its argument.

argument

is an integer greater than zero and less than or equal to n, where n is the number

of positions in the program collating sequence.

If more than one character has the same position in the program collating sequence,

the returned character is the first character that the ALPHABET clause specifies for

that character position. If the current program collating sequence was not specified by

an ALPHABET clause, HP COBOL uses the ASCII program collating sequence.

Example 14-5. CHAR Function Without ALPHABET Clause

Code:

DISPLAY FUNCTION CHAR (36)

DISPLAY FUNCTION CHAR (43)

DISPLAY FUNCTION CHAR (54)

DISPLAY FUNCTION CHAR (69)

DISPLAY FUNCTION CHAR (99)

Output:

( )

CHARFUNCTION argument

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