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Section 8,4,4: Hollerith
A Hollerith constant is a string of printable characters preceded
by a character count and the letter H. It is used only in numeric
expressions and has the form:
nHc1c2c3...cn
n Is an unsigned, nonzero integer constant stating the
number of characters in the string (including tabs
and spaces)
c Is a printable character
A Hollerith constant can be a string of 1 to 2000 characters and is
stored as a byte string, one character per byte.
Hollerith constants have no data type, but assume a numeric data
type according to the context in which they are used.
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