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HP COBOL II/XL Quick Reference Guide

Figurative Constant Words 

          Table 6-3.  Figurative Constant Words 

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|                    |                                      |
|        Word        |            Constant Value            |
|                    |                                      |
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|                    |                                      |
| ALL literal        | The character string denoted by the  |
|                    | variable literal.                    |
|                    |                                      |
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|                    |                                      |
| HIGH-VALUE         | One or more occurrences of the       |
| HIGH-VALUES        | character with the highest possible  |
|                    | value in the program collating       |
|                    | sequence.                            |
|                    |                                      |
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|                    |                                      |
| LOW-VALUE          | One or more occurrences of the       |
| LOW-VALUES         | character with the lowest possible   |
|                    | value in the program collating       |
|                    | sequence.                            |
|                    |                                      |
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|                    |                                      |
| QUOTE              | One or more quotation marks.  This   |
| QUOTES             | constant is used to code the         |
|                    | quotation mark as a literal in       |
|                    | statements such as MOVE QUOTES.      |
|                    |                                      |
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|                    |                                      |
| SPACE              | One or more spaces.                  |
| SPACES             |                                      |
|                    |                                      |
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|                    |                                      |
| ZERO               | One or more occurrences of the digit |
| ZEROS              | zero.                                |
| ZEROES             |                                      |
|                    |                                      |
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|                    |                                      |
|  [ALL]             | User-defined figurative constants    |
|  symbolic-character| which are defined using the SYMBOLIC |
|                    | CHARACTERS clause of the ENVIRONMENT |
|                    | DIVISION.                            |
|                    |                                      |
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