Character types accepted by the Parse Service Routine

The following table shows the various character types that are recognized by the Parse Service Routine. Throughout this chapter, the alphanumeric characters are as follows, unless otherwise indicated.

Alpha: A - Z
Numeric: 0 - 9
Special: $, #, @

Table 1. Character types recognized by the parse service routine
		Separator	$ # @	Alphabetic	Numeric	Command delimiter	Delimiter	Special
Comment	/*	X
Horizontal Tab	HT	X				X
Blank	b	X				X
Comma	,	X				X
Dollar Sign	$		X
Number Sign	#		X
At Sign	@ a-z A-Z 0-9		X	X X	X
New line	NL					X	X
Period	.					X		X
Left parenthesis	(					X	X
Right parenthesis	)					X	X
Ampersand	&					X		X
Asterisk	*							X
Semicolon	;					X	X
Minus sign, hyphen	-					X		X
Slash	/					X	X
Apostrophe	‘					X	X
Equal sign	=					X	X
Cent sign	c							X
Less than	<							X
Greater than	>							X
Plus sign	+							X
Logical OR	\|							X
Exclamation point	!							X
Logical NOT	¬							X
Percent sign	%							X
Dash	-							X
Question mark	?							X
Colon	:							X
Quotation Mark	"							X
Shift-out¹	X'0E'							X
Shift-in¹	X'0F'							X
¹ The shift-out and shift-in characters indicate the beginning and end of a string of double-byte character set data.