Separators

A separator is a character or a string of two or more contiguous characters that delimits character-strings.

The separators are shown in the following table.

Table 1. Separators
Separator Meaning
b1 Space
,b1 Comma
.b1 Period
;b1 Semicolon
( Left parenthesis
) Right parenthesis
: Colon
"b1 Quotation mark
'b1 Apostrophe
U" Opening delimiter for UTF-8 literal
U' Opening delimiter for UTF-8 literal
UX" Opening delimiter for a hexadecimal format UTF-8 literal
UX' Opening delimiter for a hexadecimal format UTF-8 literal
X" Opening delimiter for a hexadecimal format alphanumeric literal
X' Opening delimiter for a hexadecimal format alphanumeric literal
Z" Opening delimiter for a null-terminated alphanumeric literal
Z' Opening delimiter for a null-terminated alphanumeric literal
N" Opening delimiter for a national literal2
N' Opening delimiter for a national literal2
NX" Opening delimiter for a hexadecimal format national literal
NX' Opening delimiter for a hexadecimal format national literal
G" Opening delimiter for a DBCS literal
G' Opening delimiter for a DBCS literal
== Pseudo-text delimiter
  1. b represents a blank.
  2. N" and N' are the opening delimiter for a DBCS literal when the NSYMBOL(DBCS) compiler option is in effect.