The following example declares SA, SB, and SC as one-dimensional arrays of strings, each with a lower bound of 0 and an upper bound of 10. Because no string type is specified, the default character type is used. This character type is EBCDIC unless the compiler control option ASCII is TRUE, in which case the string type is ASCII.

STRING ARRAY SA,SB,SC[0:10]

The following example declares ESA, ESB, and ESC as arrays of strings. The string type is EBCDIC, so each is an array of EBCDIC strings. ESA is one-dimensional and has a lower bound of 1 and an upper bound of 15. Arrays ESB and ESC are two-dimensional arrays with lower bounds of 0 and upper bounds of 10 for both dimensions.

EBCDIC STRING ARRAY ESA[1:15], ESB, ESC[0:10, 0:10]