Literals

PERCON can process constant values as comparison criteria or for insertion into output records. These values are known as literals.

Format of a literal for:

SET-GROUP-ATTRIBUTES SET-PAGE-LAYOUT SET-RECORD-MAPPING	SELECT-INPUT- RECORDS	Meaning
[C] 'c-string'		String of up to 256 uppercase or lowercase letters, digits or special characters. Any apostrophe within this string must be specified twice. Memory requirements: 1 byte per character.
X 'x-string'		String of up to 512 hexadecimal digits ('0',...,'F'). If an uneven number of digits is specified, the string is padded on the left with zeros. Memory requirements: 1 byte per pair of hexadecimal digits.
	P 'digit'	Decimal number of up to 16 digits (with optional sign). PERCON stores this number in packed format.
	Z 'digit'	Decimal number of up to 32 digits (with optional sign). PERCON stores this number in zoned format.
integer		Decimal number in the range: -231 to 231 - 1
long-integer		Decimal number in the range -263 to 263 - 1