The CHAR-NATIONAL (national character) function returns a one-character value that is a character in the national program collating sequence having the ordinal position equal to the value of the argument.
Restriction: This function is supported for native COBOL only.
The type of the function is national.
General Format
Arguments
- Argument-1 must be an integer.
- The value of argument-1 must be greater than zero and less than or equal to the number of positions in the national program collating sequence.
Returned Values
- The returned value is the character in the national program collating sequence having the ordinal position specifed by argument-1.
- If more than one character has the same ordinal positon in the current national program collating sequence, the returned value is the first character defined for that position.
