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C Appendix C DATA INFORMATION
Collating Sequence Table
The Collating Sequence Table brings together comparative information concerning data used in sort jobs.
It includes the ASCII and EBCDIC collating sequences in decimal, octal, hexidecimal, and binary
representations. It gives the character (graphic) or control equivalents for both ASCII and EBCDIC.
The relative position of alphabetic and numeric characters in the sorting sequence is shown in the right
hand columns. This information will be helpful to those users who have experience with systems based on
the EBCDIC collating sequence. A major difference between the two systems is the relative position of
alphabetic and numeric characters in the collating sequence. When alphabetic characters have a higher
place in the collating sequence than numeric characters, this can effect compare and matching field
operations. Using Alternate Collating Sequence, it is possible to reverse this if the user prefers EBCDIC
sequence..
COLLATING SEQUENCE
Dec Oct
0 000
1 001
2 002
3 003
4 004
5 005
6 006
7 007
8 010
9 011
10 012
11 013
12 014
13 015
14 016
15 017
16 020
Hex Binary
00 0000 0000
01 0000 0001
02 0000 0010
03 0000 0011
04 0000 0100
05 0000 0101
06 0000 0110
07 0000 0111
08 0000 1000
09 0000 1001
0A 0000 1010
0B 0000 1011
0C 0000 1100
0D 0000 1101
0E 0000 1110
0F 0000 1111
10 0001 0000
ALPHA/CONTROL
CHARACTER
ASCII EBCDIC
NUL NUL
SOH SOH
STX STX
ETX ETX
EOT PF
ENQ HT
ACK LC
BEL DEL
BS
HT
LF SMM
VT VT
FF FF
CR CR
SO SO
SI SI
DLE DLE
NUMERIC VALUE
ASCII EBCDIC
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