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Must begin with a letter HOTELS
Cannot contain a period (.)
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Declaring Variables

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You can declare variables with the Dim, Public or the Amsterdam Hotels
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name=some value
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The variable name is on the left side of the expression

and the value you want to assign to the variable is on
the right. Now the variable "name" has the value
"Hege".

Lifetime of Variables

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How long a variable exists is its lifetime. Grow Your

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names(0)="Tove"
names(1)="Jani"
names(2)="Stale"

Similarly, the data can be retrieved from any element

using the index of the particular array element you
want. Like this:

mother=names(0)

You can have up to 60 dimensions in an array. Multiple

dimensions are declared by separating the numbers in
the parentheses with commas. Here we have a two-
dimensional array consisting of 5 rows and 7 columns:

dim table(4, 6)

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