character-string OpenVMS usage:char_string type: character string access: read only mechanism: by descriptor String whose initial character is to be used by LIB$SKPC in the comparison. The character-string argument contains the address of a descriptor pointing to this string. Only the first character of character-string is used, and the length of character-string is not checked. source-string OpenVMS usage:char_string type: character string access: read only mechanism: by descriptor String to be searched by LIB$SKPC. The source-string argument contains the address of a descriptor pointing to this string.