Control Data Corporation 3300 Reference Manual page 256

THE COBOL LANGUAGE
B
COBOL CHARACTER SET
The characters recognized by COBOL include the letters of the alphabet, digits, and those characters,
commonly called symbols, which are used in expressions, relations and editing. The complete
computer character set consists of the 63 characters listed in the COBOL collating sequence
(appendix D).
Character Set for Words
Letters A-Z, digits 0-9, and hyphen (-)
Character Set for Punctuation
II
comma
semicolon
period
quotation mark
left parenthesis
right parenthesis
space
Character Set for Arithmetic Operators
+ addition
subtraction
*
multiplication
/ division
** exponentiation
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