ASCII and EBCDIC character sets

XL Fortran uses the ASCII character set as its collating sequence.

This table lists the standard ASCII characters in numerical order with the corresponding decimal and hexadecimal values. For convenience in working with programs that use EBCDIC character values, the corresponding information for EBCDIC characters is also included. The table indicates the control characters with "Ctrl-" notation. For example, the horizontal tab (HT) appears as "Ctrl-I", which you enter by simultaneously pressing the Ctrl key and I key.

Table 1. Equivalent characters in the ASCII and EBCDIC character sets
Decimal Value	Hex Value	Control Character	ASCII Symbol	Meaning	EBCDIC Symbol	Meaning
0	00	Ctrl-@	NUL	null	NUL	null
1	01	Ctrl-A	SOH	start of heading	SOH	start of heading
2	02	Ctrl-B	STX	start of text	STX	start of text
3	03	Ctrl-C	ETX	end of text	ETX	end of text
4	04	Ctrl-D	EOT	end of transmission	SEL	select
5	05	Ctrl-E	ENQ	enquiry	HT	horizontal tab
6	06	Ctrl-F	ACK	acknowledge	RNL	required new-line
7	07	Ctrl-G	BEL	bell	DEL	delete
8	08	Ctrl-H	BS	backspace	GE	graphic escape
9	09	Ctrl-I	HT	horizontal tab	SPS	superscript
10	0A	Ctrl-J	LF	line feed	RPT	repeat
11	0B	Ctrl-K	VT	vertical tab	VT	vertical tab
12	0C	Ctrl-L	FF	form feed	FF	form feed
13	0D	Ctrl-M	CR	carriage return	CR	carriage return
14	0E	Ctrl-N	SO	shift out	SO	shift out
15	0F	Ctrl-O	SI	shift in	SI	shift in
16	10	Ctrl-P	DLE	data link escape	DLE	data link escape
17	11	Ctrl-Q	DC1	device control 1	DC1	device control 1
18	12	Ctrl-R	DC2	device control 2	DC2	device control 2
19	13	Ctrl-S	DC3	device control 3	DC3	device control 3
20	14	Ctrl-T	DC4	device control 4	RES/ENP	restore/enable presentation
21	15	Ctrl-U	NAK	negative acknowledge	NL	new-line
22	16	Ctrl-V	SYN	synchronous idle	BS	backspace
23	17	Ctrl-W	ETB	end of transmission block	POC	program-operator communications
24	18	Ctrl-X	CAN	cancel	CAN	cancel
25	19	Ctrl-Y	EM	end of medium	EM	end of medium
26	1A	Ctrl-Z	SUB	substitute	UBS	unit backspace
27	1B	Ctrl-[	ESC	escape	CU1	customer use 1
28	1C	Ctrl-\	FS	file separator	IFS	interchange file separator
29	1D	Ctrl-]	GS	group separator	IGS	interchange group separator
30	1E	Ctrl-∧	RS	record separator	IRS	interchange record separator
31	1F	Ctrl-_	US	unit separator	IUS/ITB	interchange unit separator / intermediate transmission block
32	20		SP	space	DS	digit select
33	21		!	exclamation mark	SOS	start of significance
34	22		"	straight double quotation mark	FS	field separator
35	23		#	number sign	WUS	word underscore
36	24		$	dollar sign	BYP/INP	bypass/inhibit presentation
37	25		%	percent sign	LF	line feed
38	26		&	ampersand	ETB	end of transmission block
39	27		'	apostrophe	ESC	escape
40	28		(	left parenthesis	SA	set attribute
41	29		)	right parenthesis
42	2A		*	asterisk	SM/SW	set model switch
43	2B		+	addition sign	CSP	control sequence prefix
44	2C		,	comma	MFA	modify field attribute
45	2D		-	subtraction sign	ENQ	enquiry
46	2E		.	period	ACK	acknowledge
47	2F		/	right slash	BEL	bell
48	30		0
49	31		1
50	32		2		SYN	synchronous idle
51	33		3		IR	index return
52	34		4		PP	presentation position
53	35		5		TRN
54	36		6		NBS	numeric backspace
55	37		7		EOT	end of transmission
56	38		8		SBS	subscript
57	39		9		IT	indent tab
58	3A		:	colon	RFF	required form feed
59	3B		;	semicolon	CU3	customer use 3
60	3C		<	less than	DC4	device control 4
61	3D		=	equal	NAK	negative acknowledge
62	3E		>	greater than
63	3F		?	question mark	SUB	substitute
64	40		@	at symbol	SP	space
65	41		A
66	42		B
67	43		C
68	44		D
69	45		E
70	46		F
71	47		G
72	48		H
73	49		I
74	4A		J		¢	cent
75	4B		K		.	period
76	4C		L		<	less than
77	4D		M		(	left parenthesis
78	4E		N		+	addition sign
79	4F		O		\|	logical or
80	50		P		&	ampersand
81	51		Q
82	52		R
83	53		S
84	54		T
85	55		U
86	56		V
87	57		W
88	58		X
89	59		Y
90	5A		Z		!	exclamation mark
91	5B		[	left bracket	$	dollar sign
92	5C		\	left slash	*	asterisk
93	5D		]	right bracket	)	right parenthesis
94	5E		^	hat, circumflex	;	semicolon
95	5F		_	underscore	¬	logical not
96	60		ˋ	grave	-	subtraction sign
97	61		a		/	right slash
98	62		b
99	63		c
100	64		d
101	65		e
102	66		f
103	67		g
104	68		h
105	69		i
106	6A		j		\|	split vertical bar
107	6B		k		,	comma
108	6C		l		%	percent sign
109	6D		m		_	underscore
110	6E		n		>	greater than
111	6F		o		?	question mark
112	70		p
113	71		q
114	72		r
115	73		s
116	74		t
117	75		u
118	76		v
119	77		w
120	78		x
121	79		y		ˋ	grave
122	7A		z		:	colon
123	7B		{	left brace	#	numbersign
124	7C		\|	logical or	@	at symbol
125	7D		}	right brace	'	apostrophe
126	7E		~	similar, tilde	=	equal
127	7F		DEL	delete	"	straight double quotation mark
128	80
129	81				a
130	82				b
131	83				c
132	84				d
133	85				e
134	86				f
135	87				g
136	88				h
137	89				i
138	8A
139	8B
140	8C
141	8D
142	8E
143	8F
144	90
145	91				j
146	92				k
147	93				l
148	94				m
149	95				n
150	96				o
151	97				p
152	98				q
153	99				r
154	9A
155	9B
156	9C
157	9D
158	9E
159	9F
160	A0
161	A1				~	similar, tilde
162	A2				s
163	A3				t
164	A4				u
165	A5				v
166	A6				w
167	A7				x
168	A8				y
169	A9				z
170	AA
171	AB
172	AC
173	AD
174	AE
175	AF
176	B0
177	B1
178	B2
179	B3
180	B4
181	B5
182	B6
183	B7
184	B8
185	B9
186	BA
187	BB
188	BC
189	BD
190	BE
191	BF
192	C0				{	left brace
193	C1				A
194	C2				B
195	C3				C
196	C4				D
197	C5				E
198	C6				F
199	C7				G
200	C8				H
201	C9				I
202	CA
203	CB
204	CC
205	CD
206	CE
207	CF
208	D0				}	right brace
209	D1				J
210	D2				K
211	D3				L
212	D4				M
213	D5				N
214	D6				O
215	D7				P
216	D8				Q
217	D9				R
218	DA
219	DB
220	DC
221	DD
222	DE
223	DF
224	E0				\	left slash
225	E1
226	E2				S
227	E3				T
228	E4				U
229	E5				V
230	E6				W
231	E7				X
232	E8				Y
233	E9				Z
234	EA
235	EB
236	EC
237	ED
238	EE
239	EF
240	F0				0
241	F1				1
242	F2				2
243	F3				3
244	F4				4
245	F5				5
246	F6				6
247	F7				7
248	F8				8
249	F9				9
250	FA				\|	vertical line
251	FB
252	FC
253	FD
254	FE
255	FF				EO	eight ones

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