Character Set

The four types of characters are alphabetic, numeric, blank, and special. Characters of each type are as follows:

• The following are PPFA alphabetic characters:

  A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
  a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z
  # @ $

• The following are PPFA numeric characters:

  0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

• The blank character has a character code of X'20' in ASCII (which is the data stream used for creating the form definition or page definition
  Note: In EBCDIC data, the blank character has a character code of X'40'.
• The following are PPFA special characters:

  . ( +* ) – % ' = ;  ⁄ &

• The following are EBCDIC shift-out and shift-in codes:
  • X'0E', the shift-out (SO) code
  • X'0F', the shift-in (SI) code

Other character codes are also allowed within comments and literals. See Comments and Literals for details of what can be included.