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 AS Clause (Different Uses)
 
 ■ The AS clause performs actions as part of several statements:
 
   Action                    Statements
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   Specifies variable type   COMMON, DECLARE, DEF FN, DIM, FUNCTION,
                             REDIM, SHARED, STATIC, and SUB statements
   Specifies element type    A user-defined data type in TYPE statement
   Assigns a file number     A file or device in the OPEN statement
   Specifies field name      FIELD statement
   Specifies new file name   NAME statement
 
 See: ◄COMMON Statement►     ◄DECLARE Statement►      ◄DEF FN Statement►
      ◄DIM Statement►        ◄FIELD Statement►        ◄FUNCTION Statement►
      ◄NAME Statement►       ◄OPEN Statement►         ◄REDIM Statement►
      ◄SHARED Statement►     ◄STATIC Statement►       ◄SUB Statement►
      ◄TYPE Statement►