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8.12 STRING

     STRING /var_list (fmt_spec).

STRING creates new string variables for use in transformations.

Specify a slash (/), followed by the names of the string variables to create and the desired output format specification in parentheses (see Input/Output Formats). Variable widths are implicitly derived from the specified output formats.

Created variables are initialized to spaces.