Special Characters

The InfoSphere® DataStage® BASIC character set comprises alphabetic, numeric, and special characters. The alphabetic characters are the upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet. The numeric characters are the digits 0 through 9. The special characters are as follows. Most of the special characters are not permitted in a numeric constant or a variable name.

Space

Tab

=

Equal sign or assignment symbol

+

Plus sign

-

Minus sign

*

Asterisk, multiplication symbol, or nonexecutable comment

**

Exponentiation

/

Slash or division symbol

^

Up-arrow or exponentiation symbol

(

Left parenthesis

)

Right parenthesis

#

Number (pound or hash) sign or not equal to

$

Dollar sign

!

Exclamation point or nonexecutable comment

[

Left bracket

]

Right bracket

,

Comma (not permitted in numeric data)

.

Period or decimal point

'

Single quotation mark or apostrophe

;

Semicolon

:

Colon or concatenation

&

Ampersand (and)

<

Less than (left angle bracket)

>

Greater than (right angle bracket)

@

At sign

_

Underscore