resultant-string OpenVMS usage:char_string type: character string access: write only mechanism: by descriptor Destination string into which LIB$GET_COMMON writes the string copied from the common area. The resultant-string argument is the address of a descriptor pointing to the destination string. resultant-length OpenVMS usage:word_unsigned type: word (unsigned) access: write only mechanism: by reference Number of characters written into resultant-string by LIB$GET_ COMMON, not counting padding in the case of a fixed-length string. The resultant-length argument is the address of an unsigned word integer containing the number of characters copied. If the input string is truncated to the size specified in the resultant-string descriptor, resultant-length is set to this size. Therefore, resultant-length can always be used by the calling program to access a valid substring of resultant-string.