1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3 4<!--*********************************************************************** 5 * 6 * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. 7 * 8 * Copyright 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 9 * 10 * OpenOffice.org - a multi-platform office productivity suite 11 * 12 * This file is part of OpenOffice.org. 13 * 14 * OpenOffice.org is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify 15 * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 16 * only, as published by the Free Software Foundation. 17 * 18 * OpenOffice.org is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 19 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 20 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 21 * GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 for more details 22 * (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code). 23 * 24 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License 25 * version 3 along with OpenOffice.org. If not, see 26 * <http://www.openoffice.org/license.html> 27 * for a copy of the LGPLv3 License. 28 * 29 ************************************************************************--> 30 31<helpdocument version="1.0"> 32<meta> 33<topic id="textsbasicshared03101300xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 34<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">DefDate Statement [Runtime]</title> 35<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03101300.xhp</filename> 36</topic> 37<history> 38<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> 39<lastedited date="2004-08-24T11:24:57">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited> 40</history> 41</meta> 42<body> 43<section id="defdate"> 44<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3150504"><bookmark_value>DefDate statement</bookmark_value> 45</bookmark> 46<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> 47<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> 48</section> 49<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154758" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph> 50<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148664" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">Defxxx Characterrange1[, Characterrange2[,...]]</paragraph> 51<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150541" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Parameters:</paragraph> 52<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156709" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6"> 53<emph>Characterrange:</emph> Letters that specify the range of variables that you want to set a default data type for.</paragraph> 54<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150869" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="7"> 55<emph>xxx:</emph> Keyword that defines the default variable type:</paragraph> 56<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145171" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8"> 57<emph>Keyword:</emph> Default variable type</paragraph> 58<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150767" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9"> 59<emph>DefDate:</emph> Date</paragraph> 60<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153768" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="10">Example:</paragraph> 61<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145785" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">REM Prefix definitions for variable types:</paragraph> 62<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146923" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">DefBool b</paragraph> 63<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155412" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">DefDate t</paragraph> 64<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153726" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">DefDbL d</paragraph> 65<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147435" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="16">DefInt i</paragraph> 66<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153188" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="17">DefLng l</paragraph> 67<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153143" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="18">DefObj o</paragraph> 68<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150010" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="19">DefVar v</paragraph> 69<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149263" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="21">Sub ExampleDefDate</paragraph> 70<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152462" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="22">tDate=Date REM tDate is an implicit date variable</paragraph> 71<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149664" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="23">end sub</paragraph> 72</body> 73</helpdocument> 74