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<h1 class="topictitle1">Special character use</h1>
<div><p>Special characters can be used only in these special ways or inside
quoted character strings or comments.</p>
<p>The special EBCDIC characters are used by the CL in various ways. They
are most frequently used as delimiters and as symbolic operators in expressions.
The special characters, as shown in the following table, have assigned meanings
when coded in control language commands:</p>
<div class="tablenoborder"><table cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" summary="" frame="border" border="1" rules="all"><caption>Table 1. Delimiters</caption><thead align="left"><tr><th valign="top" width="23.389830508474578%" id="d0e29">Name</th>
<th valign="top" width="24.40677966101695%" id="d0e31">Symbol</th>
<th valign="top" width="52.20338983050847%" id="d0e33">Meanings</th>
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<tbody><tr><td valign="top" width="23.389830508474578%" headers="d0e29 ">Apostrophe</td>
<td valign="top" width="24.40677966101695%" headers="d0e31 ">'  '</td>
<td valign="top" width="52.20338983050847%" headers="d0e33 ">Single apostrophe delimiters indicate the beginning and end of a quoted
character string (a constant).</td>
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<tr><td valign="top" width="23.389830508474578%" headers="d0e29 ">Begin and end comment</td>
<td valign="top" width="24.40677966101695%" headers="d0e31 ">/*  */</td>
<td valign="top" width="52.20338983050847%" headers="d0e33 ">Indicates the beginning and end of a comment.</td>
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<tr><td valign="top" width="23.389830508474578%" headers="d0e29 ">Blank</td>
<td valign="top" width="24.40677966101695%" headers="d0e31 "> <sup>b</sup> <sup>1</sup> </td>
<td valign="top" width="52.20338983050847%" headers="d0e33 ">Basic delimiter for separating parts of a command (label, command name,
and its parameters), and for separating values inside lists.</td>
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<tr><td valign="top" width="23.389830508474578%" headers="d0e29 ">Colon</td>
<td valign="top" width="24.40677966101695%" headers="d0e31 ">:</td>
<td valign="top" width="52.20338983050847%" headers="d0e33 ">Ending delimiter for command labels. Separates parts of time values. <sup>3</sup></td>
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<tr><td valign="top" width="23.389830508474578%" headers="d0e29 ">Comma</td>
<td valign="top" width="24.40677966101695%" headers="d0e31 ">,</td>
<td valign="top" width="52.20338983050847%" headers="d0e33 ">In many countries, used as decimal point in numeric values. Separates
parts of date values. <sup>2</sup></td>
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<tr><td valign="top" width="23.389830508474578%" headers="d0e29 ">Left and right parentheses</td>
<td valign="top" width="24.40677966101695%" headers="d0e31 ">( )</td>
<td valign="top" width="52.20338983050847%" headers="d0e33 ">Grouping delimiter for lists and parameter values, and for evaluating
the order of expressions.</td>
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<tr><td valign="top" width="23.389830508474578%" headers="d0e29 ">Period</td>
<td valign="top" width="24.40677966101695%" headers="d0e31 ">.</td>
<td valign="top" width="52.20338983050847%" headers="d0e33 ">Decimal point. Used to separate the name and extension of a document
and folder name and to separate the parts of date values. <sup>2</sup></td>
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<tr><td valign="top" width="23.389830508474578%" headers="d0e29 ">Quote</td>
<td valign="top" width="24.40677966101695%" headers="d0e31 ">"  "</td>
<td valign="top" width="52.20338983050847%" headers="d0e33 ">Start of a quoted object name.</td>
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<tr><td valign="top" width="23.389830508474578%" headers="d0e29 ">Slash</td>
<td valign="top" width="24.40677966101695%" headers="d0e31 ">/</td>
<td valign="top" width="52.20338983050847%" headers="d0e33 ">Connects parts of qualified names or path names.</td>
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<tr><td valign="top" width="23.389830508474578%" headers="d0e29 ">Slashes</td>
<td valign="top" width="24.40677966101695%" headers="d0e31 ">//</td>
<td valign="top" width="52.20338983050847%" headers="d0e33 ">Identifying characters used in positions 1 and 2 of BCHJOB, ENDBCHJOB,
and DATA commands in the job stream. Also, used as a default delimiter on
inline data files.</td>
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<tr><td colspan="3" valign="top" headers="d0e29 d0e31 d0e33 "><div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Note:</span> <ol><li>Because this character does not resolve in the online version of this
book, <sup>b</sup> is used to represent a blank space only when the character
cannot be clearly explained in another manner. </li>
<li>Valid only when the job date separator value specifies the same character.</li>
<li>Valid only when the job time separator value specifies the same character.</li>
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<div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="rbam6charsetval.htm" title="This topic explains the usage of the EBCDIC character sets, special characters, and IBM -defined fixed values called predefined values.">CL character sets and values</a></div>
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<div class="relconcepts"><strong>Related concepts</strong><br />
<div><a href="rbam6charset.htm" title="The control language uses the extended binary-coded decimal interchange code (EBCDIC) character set.">Character sets</a></div>
<div><a href="rbam6symops.htm" title="A variety of characters can be used as symbolic operators in CL commands.">Symbolic operators</a></div>
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<div class="relref"><strong>Related reference</strong><br />
<div><a href="rbam6opsinexp.htm" title="Operators are used in expressions to indicate an action to be performed on the operands in the expression or the relationship between the operands.">Operators in expressions</a></div>
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