Character tab Syntax Buttons

The Character tab syntax buttons indicate all the ways you can insert or modify a char in an expression. Clicking on one of the buttons adds the indicated syntax (minus the question marks) to your expression. In the spaces left by the question marks, enter the appropriate values.

Syntax Button

Name

Type

Description

‘?’

character literal

ASCII code for a character literal

Inserts single quotes for entering a single character literal (which includes characters for escape sequences).

For example:

a’, ‘%’, ‘1’, ‘Z’,‘\t’, ‘\r’, ‘\0’, ‘\n’, ‘\f’, ‘\\’, ‘\’

See Character Literals.

‘\u????’

Unicode for a character literal

Inserts single quotes for entering a single character literal (which includes characters for escape sequences) in a Unicode representation.

For example:

'\u03a9'
'\uFFFF'
'

See Character Literals.

? + ?

concatenation (specific to Cisco Unified CCX)

string

Concatenates two characters together to form a new string with these two characters in it.

See String Concatenation Operator +.