This statement declares character variables. A new variable can be described using one of the two following formats:

VariableName

VariableName (length)

VariableName is the name of the new variable. Length is the number of characters that it can hold and must be a number constant. A string in the method language may contain any number of characters, up to a maximum defined at compile time. If no length is given, the default is 255. (This is different to a Character field, which is always limited to 255 characters.)

Many character variables can be declared in one string statement by adding further variable descriptions, separated by commas.

The following declarations create default length string variables called txt, sample and postcode variable with a maximum length of ten characters.

string txt

String postcode(10), sample