Creating tables via Pro*C using variable names

Help! I'm a Oracle neophyte and I've run into a roadblock. I can't seem to get my Pro*C program to use a variable name in place of a table name. For example if I decalare a Oracle variable like this.

        VARCHAR OVtableName[30];

And then assign it a value like this:

	strcpy(OVtableName.arr,"NEW_TABLE");
	OVtableName.len = strlen(OVtableName.arr);

And then attempt to use it in a statement like:

	EXEC SQL CREATE TABLE :OVtableName
		(LINE NUMBER(5), TEXT CHAR(128));

I always get the following error:

        ORA-0903: invalid table name

I'm using Oracle 5.1A on Compaq 486 PC under MS-DOS 5.0 if that's any help. I have looked through all the example code I can find, and have not found one instance showing a Pro*C program using variable for a table name. Does anyone know what the heck I'm doing wrong?

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