DefStr start_letter[-end_letter ][, ...]

start_letter
end_letter

DefStr specifies that variables and arrays which aren't declared with a data type - or not declared at all - are implicitly declared of type String if the first letter of their names matches a certain letter or lies within an inclusive range of letters.

This will make sMessage a String since it starts with s.

'' Compile with -lang fblite or qb

#lang "fblite"

DefStr s
Dim sMessage

• Only available in the -lang qb and -lang fblite dialects.
  
  

• None
  
  

• DefInt
  
• DefSng
  
• DefLng
  
• DefDbl
  
• Dim
  
• String