specified token. The &LITERAL function may appear in any
statement, as follows:
L
token specifies the
token whose literal
For example:
value is to be used
token and to assign the substring to a variable symbol. The format of
the
token
i
;
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is the token from which the character string is to be
extracted.
specifies the character position in the token of the first
character to be used in the substring.
specifies the number of characters in
omitted, the remainder of the token is used.
If
example:
(if given) must be positive integers. For