String Data Types

String Data Types
String data is data that is made up of strings of characters. The data that isplaced in word processors is string data.

In C/AL constants, the symbol used to distinguish string data is the single quote, also known as an apostrophe ('). All string constantsare surrounded by single quotes.

Text

A text is a string of 0 to 250 characters. The length of a text is the number ofcharacters in it.

Code

A code is a special kind of text. All letters are forced to upper case and allleading and trailing spaces are removed. In addition, when displayed to theuser, a code is automatically right justified if all characters in it are numbers.