IBM 5100 Basic Reference Manual page 146

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Example
The following example shows a MAT READ statement:
0100 MAT READ A$ (2), A, 8(12)
In this example, array A$ is redimensioned to two elements of 18 characters each,
array 8 is redimensioned to 12 rows, and then values from the data table are assigned
to arrays A$, A, and B.
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