How to declare string variable in assembly?

Question

How can I declare a string variable without initialization in MIPS assembly? And then it receives an amount from the user.

For example: string judge;

Answer 1

By using the .space directive to reserve some space:

.data
foo: .space 100  # Reserve 100 bytes of space

.text
la $a0, foo      # Load the address of foo
# Do whatever