Program-variable description

The program variable must be enclosed in single quotation marks if it contains special characters. Up to 132 characters can be specified for a program variable name. This includes any subscripts, embedded blanks, parentheses, and commas. It does not include the enclosing single quotation marks when special characters are used.

Program Variable
 
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                        V                   |
>>-qualified-name---subscript------,subscript-------+----------><
 
Note: The maximum is 14 repetitions.

Some examples follow:

        COUNTA
        'VAR1(2,3)'
        'A.VAR1(I,3,A.J,1)'
        'VAR1 OF A(I,3,J OF A)'
        '&LIBNAME'