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Character String Literals

A character string literal is a string that specifies a character string.

Note: String literals may include Double-Byte Character Set (DBCS) characters. The DBCS string must be preceded by the Shift-Out character and ended with the Shift-In character (the Shift characters are specified in the CXXMAINT option of the CA Datacom/DB Utility (DBUTLTY)).

There are two forms of character string literals.