Specifies a literal character-string value.
Syntax
"characters" [ : [ R | L | C | T ][ U ] [ max-length ] ]
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characters
- The literal contents of the character string.
- R | L | C | T
- Specifies the justification of the string within its maximum
length: right, left, centered, or trimmed, respectively. The default
justification depends on how the string is used. If the string is
displayed with side labels, the default is right justification.
If column labels are used, the defaults are left justification for
character fields and right justification for numeric fields. Strings
used in expressions are trimmed by default.
- R means right
justified and padded on the left with spaces: "Hello":R10
= " Hello".
- L means left justified and padded on the right with spaces: "Hello":L10
= "Hello ".
- C means centered within the string and padded on both the right
and left as needed: "Hello":C10 = " Hello ".
- T means trimmed of leading and trailing blanks (although storage space
and screen space is still allocated for the maximum number of characters): " Hello":T10
= "Hello" (but screen and storage space is still reserved
for 10 characters).
- U
- Specifies that the string is untranslatable. This means that
the string will not be processed by the OpenEdge Translation Manager.
If you do not specify U, then the string is assumed to be translatable.
-
max-length
- The number of characters reserved for the string contents in
the text segment. The default is the length of the string itself.
You might want to specify a longer length if you expect a translation
of the string to be longer. The longest length you can specify is
5120 characters.
Note
If you
include the colon (:) after the quoted string, you must supply at
least one option. Otherwise, ABL treats the colon as a statement
separator.
