Character string constants
A character string constant specifies a varying-length character string. There is one form of character string constant.
- A sequence of characters that starts and ends with a string delimiter.
Examples:
'10/14/2013' '32' 'DON''T CHANGE' ''The right most string in the example ('') represents an empty character string constant, which is a string of zero length.
For COBOL, only character string EBCDIC 037 is supported.