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<paragraph id="par_idN10587" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">If no type-declaration character or keyword is specified, the DefStr statement sets the default variable type, according to a letter range.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_idN105D3" role="bascode" xml-lang="en-US"> sStr=String ' sStr is an implicit string variable</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idN105D4" role="bascode" xml-lang="en-US"> Print VarType(slice), strng, TypeName(sheet) ' Result is: 8 "" String</paragraph>
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