COBOL Manual for TNS and TNS/R Programs

Language Elements and Expressions

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

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Concatenation Expressions

Table 38-10. Maximum Length of Result of Concatenation Expression

Class of Operands Length of Result

Alphanumeric 160 alphanumeric character positions

National 80 national character positions

A figurative constant occupies one character position.

Table 38-11. Class of Result of Concatenation Expression

Number of Operands That

Are Figurative Constants Class of Result

0 Same class as the operands

(neither of which is a figurative constant)

1 Same class as the other operand

(which is not a figurative constant)

2 Alphanumeric

literal-1

figurative-constant

literal-2

figurative-constant

concatenation-expr

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