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<h1 class="topictitle1">Character-host variables in PL/I applications that use SQL</h1>
<div><p>This figure shows the syntax for valid scalar character-host variables.</p>
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>>-+-DECLARE-+--+-<i>variable-name</i>-----------+--+-CHARACTER-+------>
   '-DCL-----'  |    .-,-------------.    |  '-CHAR------'   
                |    V               |    |                  
                '-(----<i>variable-name</i>-+--)-'                  

>--+--------------+--+---------+-------------------------------->
   '-(--<i>length</i>--)-'  +-VARYING-+   
                     '-VAR-----'   

>--+---------------------------------------+--;---------------->&lt;
   '-<i>Alignment and/or Scope and/or Storage</i>-'      

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<div class="section"> <div class="note"><span class="notetitle">Notes:</span> <ol><li><em>Length</em> must be an integer constant not greater than 32766 if VARYING
or VAR is not specified.</li>
<li>If VARYING or VAR is specified, <em>length</em> must be a constant no greater
than 32740.</li>
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