# 119. Internal write to character variable too small to hold output causes run-time error.
topic: {ref}`character-variables`
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A character variable can be assigned to a character variable with smaller or larger LEN, resulting in padding with blanks or truncation, but an internal write to a character variable that is too small to hold the output will cause a run-time error.
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