E (EBCDIC) character constant

An E (EBCDIC) character constant is a character constant that ends with an E. The data in an E character constant is converted to EBCDIC.

Syntax

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All characters in an E character constant must be code page invariant and occupy only one byte if converted to UTF-8.

Example

'123'E represents the hex value 'F1F2F3'X

This representation is independent of the setting of the DEFAULT(ASCII | EBCDIC) option.