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From: lanmaint@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (Dave Yoest)
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Subject: Re: Defining variable lenght arrays
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Date: 17 Oct 90 10:13:46 GMT
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In article <24785@adm.BRL.MIL>, BESKO%MSUNSCL.BITNET@uga.cc.uga.edu writes...
> 
>Does anyone know if it is possible and how to define a variable length char
>array in VAX Pascal?  Any information would be helpful.
> 
>Thanks,
> 
>Lisa Besko


Lisa,
 Yes it's possible.... declare the array of characters as:


 your_array_name   : varying[255] of char;


 for a varying length char array of 255 char. of course, the variable 
 allocates space for all 255, but "varying" can be assigned to other
 "varying" array sizes without type mismatches.