1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3 4<!--*********************************************************** 5 * 6 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 7 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 8 * distributed with this work for additional information 9 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 10 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 11 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 12 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 13 * 14 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 15 * 16 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 17 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 18 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 19 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 20 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 21 * under the License. 22 * 23 ***********************************************************--> 24 25 26 27<helpdocument version="1.0"> 28<meta> 29<topic id="textsbasicshared03101300xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 30<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">DefDate Statement [Runtime]</title> 31<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03101300.xhp</filename> 32</topic> 33<history> 34<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> 35<lastedited date="2004-08-24T11:24:57">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited> 36</history> 37</meta> 38<body> 39<section id="defdate"> 40<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3150504"><bookmark_value>DefDate statement</bookmark_value> 41</bookmark> 42<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150504" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03101300.xhp" name="DefDate Statement [Runtime]">DefDate Statement [Runtime]</link></paragraph> 43<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145069" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">If no type-declaration character or keyword is specified, the DefDate statement sets the default variable type, according to a letter range.</paragraph> 44</section> 45<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154758" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph> 46<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148664" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">Defxxx Characterrange1[, Characterrange2[,...]]</paragraph> 47<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150541" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Parameters:</paragraph> 48<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156709" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6"> 49<emph>Characterrange:</emph> Letters that specify the range of variables that you want to set a default data type for.</paragraph> 50<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150869" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="7"> 51<emph>xxx:</emph> Keyword that defines the default variable type:</paragraph> 52<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145171" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8"> 53<emph>Keyword:</emph> Default variable type</paragraph> 54<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150767" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9"> 55<emph>DefDate:</emph> Date</paragraph> 56<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153768" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="10">Example:</paragraph> 57<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145785" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">REM Prefix definitions for variable types:</paragraph> 58<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146923" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">DefBool b</paragraph> 59<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155412" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">DefDate t</paragraph> 60<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153726" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">DefDbL d</paragraph> 61<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147435" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="16">DefInt i</paragraph> 62<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153188" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="17">DefLng l</paragraph> 63<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153143" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="18">DefObj o</paragraph> 64<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150010" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="19">DefVar v</paragraph> 65<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149263" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="21">Sub ExampleDefDate</paragraph> 66<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152462" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="22">tDate=Date REM tDate is an implicit date variable</paragraph> 67<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149664" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="23">end sub</paragraph> 68</body> 69</helpdocument> 70