Character Type

Formal Definition

The character type object is an enumeration type object with at least one literal character among its enumeration literals.

Syntax:

Type character is an enumeration type with all acceptable characters listed. Its specificatio can be found in the STANDARD package.

Description

The CHARACTER type is a predefined type declared in the STANDARD package and the values of this type are the 256 characters of the ISO 8859-1 (Latin 1).

The set of predefined operations for the CHARACTER type contains all relational functions: "=", "/=", "<', "<=", ">", ">=".

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