Binary Literals

 
Syntax

 

binary_literal.bmp

 

  • Binary literals use hexadecimal bytes to represent the binary data.

  • Binary literals must be prefixed by a capital or lower case X followed by a single quote character, and suffixed by a single quote character.

If the "Use Quoted Delimiters" option is not selected in the data dictionary, then character literals can also be prefixed and suffixed by a single double quote character.

 

Use_quoted_delimiters.bmp

 

  • The precision of the literal will be the count of all characters inside the quotes divided by two.  

Examples of Binary Literals:

 

Literal

Data Type

x'AF034879F0CC'

binary(6)

x''  (empty quotes)

binary(0)