Default processing for determining words

Words are determined by scanning for a start character and then scanning for a delimiter character on any given record. The following tables show the default start and delimiter characters that are used to identify words.

The table highlighting the start characters contains all 256 characters of the EBCDIC (Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange) character set. The start characters are any alphabetic character: A-Z, a-z.
Figure 1. Start characters
A table containing the EBCDIC character set with the alphabetic characters highlighted_ A-Z, a-z.
The table highlighting the delimiter characters contains all 256 characters of the EBCDIC character set. The delimiter characters are any character in the EBCDIC character set that does not represent an alphabetic character (A-Z, a-z), numeric character (0-9), nor the underscore character (_).
Figure 2. Delimiter characters
EBCDIC character set with the characters considered delimiters highlighted. All characters are highlighted except for alphabetic characters (A-Z, a-z), numeric characters (0-9) and the underscore character (_).