The DECLARE-VARIABLE statement defines a variable which can be used in procedure statements and conditions.
Name of predefined variables (see section “Predefined variables”) may not be used in the DECLARE-VARIABLE statement. Some of the predefined variables are of the type C (e.g. RCODE).
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VARIABLE-NAME = <structured-name 1..20>
Name of the variable. Names of predefined variables (see section “Predefined variables”) may not be used.
TYPE =
Type of variable.
TYPE = *STRING(...)
The variable is a text variable.
LENGTH = <integer 1..20>)
Length of the text variable. The default value is 5.
TYPE = *INTEGER
The variable is an integer variable.
INITIAL-VALUE =
Value which is to be predefined for the variable.
INITIAL-VALUE = <integer 1..16777215>
The variable should be initialized with an integer.
INITIAL-VALUE = <c-string>
The variable should be initialized with a string.
INITIAL-VALUE = *STD
INITIAL-VALUE *STD assigns blanks to a variable of the *STRING type and 0 to a variable of the INTEGER type.
INITIAL-VALUE = *NONE
In the case of INITIAL-VALUE *NONE the initialization value is undefined.