A pair of double quotation marks (" ") are the edit string literal characters. Any character string enclosed by double quotation marks in an edit string is inserted into the edited value. CDO Edit 99" ""Hours" String: DTR Edit 99B'Hours' String: Field Value: 40 Edited 40 Hours Value: Translation of CDO Literal Edit Strings shows how CDO translates CDO literal edit strings for other languages. In the table, <i> means that the language does not support the CDO character, and the character is ignored for the language. If the character appears in an edit string with other characters that can be translated, CDO will perform the appropriate translation for the other edit string characters. If CDO characters other than a blank, 0, /, or % occur in a string, CDO passes those characters to DIGITAL DATATRIEVE and RPG without performing a translation. If a CDO edit string consists of only a 0, /, %, or a blank, then CDO performs the appropriate translation as shown in the first four lines of the table. The last line of the table shows how CDO translates any other edit string for each language. For example, CDO translates the CDO edit string "sample string" to 'sample string' for DIGITAL DATATRIEVE. Note that the initial blank character in the CDO edit string does not become a B in DIGITAL DATATRIEVE except when the blank is the only character in the edit string. CDO translates characters from the first four lines of the table differently depending on whether or not they are the only characters in an edit string. Table 6-3 Translation of CDO Literal Edit Strings Literal RPG String CDO COBOL DTR PL/I EDIT Format String PICTURE EDIT PICTURE WORD "string" Blank B B B & 0 0 0 <i> 0 / / / / / % <i> % <i> % Any <i> 'string'<i> string other string