A (ASCII) character constant
An A (ASCII) character constant is a character constant that ends with an A. The data in an A character constant is converted to ASCII.
Syntax
- character
- All characters in an A character constant must be code page invariant and occupy only one byte if converted to UTF-8.
Example
'123'A represents the hex value '313233'X .
This representation is independent of the setting of the DEFAULT(ASCII | EBCDIC) option.