What is the difference b/w literal and identifier

venosol · New User Joined: 16 Nov 2006 Posts: 43 Location: Bangalore

what is literal ? what is the difference b/w literal and identifier ?

clarify me please.

William Thompson · Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 5:14 pm

A literal is a "stand-alone" piece of data while an inentifier is a dataname pointing to a defined field.

dick scherrer · Posted: Fri Mar 16, 2007 7:32 pm

Hello,

PROCEDURE DIVISION literals:

Literals go in quotes - i.e. 'literal', identifiers do not - i.e. my-field.

You can MOVE to an identifier - you cannot move to a literal.

A literal is only used in one procedural statement. If you need it in another, it must be repeated in the code. In identifier may be used multiple times in the code.