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