BAL literals

The Business Action Language (BAL) supports number, string, date, and time data types.

Numbers
Number types are represented as a set of digits with a possible decimal point separator, a grouping symbol, a minus sign and an exponent.
Strings
String literals are represented by a set of characters enclosed in double quotation marks ("Text string").
Dates and times
You can use the Date, Simple Date, and Universal Date value types to express date values. You can use the Time and Universal Time value types to express time values.

Parent topic: Business Action Language (BAL)

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