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COBOL- Character Set
To learn any language, first it is very important to know the alphabets of the language. The alphabets of COBOL language is called as ‘Character Set’.
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10 Numerals |
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26 English characters (Upper case) |
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26 English characters (Lower case) |
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Space or blank character | |
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Plus sign |
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Minus Sign or Hyphen |
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Forward slash |
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Asterisk |
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Equal sign |
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Currency sign |
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Comma |
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Semi colon |
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Colon |
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Period or Decimal Point |
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Apostrophe |
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Quotation mark |
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Left parenthesis |
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Right parenthesis |
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Less than symbol |
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Greater than symbol |
- The characters 0-9 are called numeric characters or digits. The characters A-Z and a-z are called letters and the remaining characters are called as Special characters