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SPL to HP C/XL Migration Guide

Delimiters 

          Table 2-3.  Delimiters 

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|                     SPL                     |             HP C/XL Equivalent              |
|                                             |                                             |
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|                                             |                                             |
| Blanks and special characters (other than   | Similar, except that underscore, "_",       |
| apostophes) act as delimiters to reserved   | assumes the role of apostrophe in           |
| words and identifiers.  Apostrophes, "'",   | identifiers and as a nonseparator.  That    |
| may be used in identifiers.                 | is, change "'" to "_".                      |
|                                             |                                             |
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| Blanks cannot be embedded in reserved       | Same as SPL.                                |
| words, identifiers, and multicharacter      |                                             |
| tokens, such as ":=", "<<", and ">>".       |                                             |
|                                             |                                             |
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