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34<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created>
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43<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150669" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">Dimensions a variable or an array at the module level (that is, not within a subroutine or function), so that the variable and the array are valid in all libraries and modules.</paragraph>
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45<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150772" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph>
46<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155341" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">Public VarName[(start To end)] [As VarType][, VarName2[(start To end)] [As VarType][,...]]</paragraph>
47<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3145315" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Example:</paragraph>
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51<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150359" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10">MsgBox iPublicVar</paragraph>
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