ASCII

Table 1 shows the collating sequence for ASCII, character, and unsigned decimal data. The collating sequence ranges from low (00000000) to high (01111111). Bit configurations that do not correspond to symbols are not shown.

Packed decimal, zoned decimal, fixed-point normalized floating-point data, and the signed numeric data formats are collated algebraically; that is, each quantity is interpreted as having a sign.

Table 1. ASCII Collating Sequence
ASCII Collating SequenceCollating Sequence	Bit Configuration	Symbol	Meaning
0	00000000	Null
.
.
32	00100000	SP	Space
33	00100001	!	Exclamation point
34	00100010	"	Quotation mark
35	00100011	#	Number sign
36	00100100	$	Dollar sign
37	00100101	%	Percent
38	00100110	&	Ampersand
39	00100111	'	Apostrophe, prime
.
.
40	00101000	(	Opening parenthesis
41	00101001	)	Closing parenthesis
42	00101010	*	Asterisk
43	00101011	+	Plus
44	00101100	,	Comma
45	00101101	—	Hyphen, minus
46	00101110	.	Period, decimal point
47	00101111	/	Slash
48	00110000	0
49	00110001	1
50	00110010	2
51	00110011	3
52	00110100	4
53	00110101	5
54	001101100	6
55	00110111	7
56	00111000	8
57	00111001	9
58	00111010	:	Colon
59	00111011	;	Semicolon
60	00111100	<	Less than
61	00111101	=	Equals
62	00111110	>	Greater than
63	00111111	?	Question mark
64	01000000	@	Commercial At
65	01000001	A
66	01000010	B
67	01000011	C
68	01000100	D
69	01000101	E
70	01000110	F
71	01000111	G
72	01001000	H
73	01001001	I
74	01001010	J
75	01001011	K
76	01001100	L
77	01001101	M
78	01001110	N
79	01001111	O
80	01010000	P
81	01010001	Q
82	01010010	R
83	01010011	S
84	01010100	T
85	01010101	U
86	01010110	V
87	01010111	W
88	01011000	X
89	01011001	Y
90	01011010	Z
91	01011011	[	Opening bracket
92	01011100	\	Reverse slash
93	01011101	]	Closing bracket
94	01011110	^	Circumflex, Logical NOT
95	01011111	_	Underscore
96	01100000	`	Grave Accent
97	01100001	a
98	01100010	b
99	01100011	c
100	01100100	d
101	01100101	e
102	01100110	f
103	01100111	g
104	01101000	h
105	01101001	i
106	01101010	j
107	01101011	k
108	01101100	l
109	01101101	m
110	01101110	n
111	01101111	o
112	01110000	p
113	01110001	q
114	01110010	r
115	01110011	s
116	01110100	t
117	01110101	u
118	01110110	v
119	01110111	w
120	01111000	x
121	01111001	y
122	01111010	z
123	01111011	{	Opening Brace
124	01111100	I	Vertical Line
125	01111101	}	Closing Brace
126	01111110	~	Tilde