Conversion from forms 4.5 to 6i .....urgent !

Hi all,
I'm trying to convert my forms from Forms version 4.5 to 6i.
In the process, all the variables declared as char are getting converted to varchar2.Say it was:
(in version 4.5)
v_variable char(22);
This gets converted to
(in version 6i)
v_variable varchar2(22);
But if the length of the char variable is not defined it is getting defaulted to varchar2 (1).This will give me various errors because of the conversion into a variable of length 1.(Earlier it was not compulsory to define the length of char variables)
Is there any way that I can prompt the compiler to convert char variables into varchar2(200) ?????
Any suggestions will be of great help.
Thanks in advance.
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But if you had a variable defined as "my_var char;" it had a
length of 1 implicitly. This should not affect your runtime
behavior.
You can check into using the Forms API to convert the text
string "varchar2(1)" to varchar2(2000). You can find
information on the API at:
http://otn.oracle.com/products/forms/pdf/274326.pdf
Regards,
Candace Stover

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