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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>
<div class="section"><h4 class="sectiontitle">Character</h4><pre><span><img src="./c.gif" border="0" alt="Read syntax diagram" longdesc="rzajpplicharsyn1.htm" /></span><a href="#d0e38"><img src="./c.gif" border="0" alt="Skip visual syntax diagram" /></a>
>>-+-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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