Special Characters

The WebSphere 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