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KEY Statement

The following KEY statement types the string of characters "Hello, ACL/E" on your screen:

KEY 'Hello, ACL/E'

The single quotes identify the operand "Hello, ACL/E" as a character string. A sequence of characters surrounded by single quotes is a character string. For a description of other types of strings, see the chapter Syntax and Semantics.