1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3<!--*********************************************************** 4 * 5 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 6 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 7 * distributed with this work for additional information 8 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 9 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 10 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 11 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 12 * 13 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 14 * 15 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 16 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 17 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 18 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 19 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 20 * under the License. 21 * 22 ***********************************************************--> 23 24<helpdocument version="1.0"> 25<meta> 26<topic id="textsbasicshared03101300xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 27<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">DefDate Statement [Runtime]</title> 28<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03101300.xhp</filename> 29</topic> 30</meta> 31<body> 32<section id="defdate"> 33<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3150504"> 34<bookmark_value>DefDate statement</bookmark_value> 35</bookmark> 36<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> 37<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> 38</section> 39<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154758" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph> 40<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148664" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">Defxxx Characterrange1[, Characterrange2[,...]]</paragraph> 41<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150541" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Parameters:</paragraph> 42<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156709" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6"> 43<emph>Characterrange:</emph> Letters that specify the range of variables that you want to set a default data type for.</paragraph> 44<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150869" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="7"> 45<emph>xxx:</emph> Keyword that defines the default variable type:</paragraph> 46<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145171" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8"> 47<emph>Keyword:</emph> Default variable type</paragraph> 48<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150767" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9"> 49<emph>DefDate:</emph> Date</paragraph> 50<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153768" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="10">Example:</paragraph> 51<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145785" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">REM Prefix definitions for variable types:</paragraph> 52<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146923" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">DefBool b</paragraph> 53<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155412" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">DefDate t</paragraph> 54<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153726" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">DefDbL d</paragraph> 55<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147435" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="16">DefInt i</paragraph> 56<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153188" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="17">DefLng l</paragraph> 57<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153143" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="18">DefObj o</paragraph> 58<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150010" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="19">DefVar v</paragraph> 59<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149263" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="21">Sub ExampleDefDate</paragraph> 60<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152462" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="22">tDate=Date REM tDate is an implicit date variable</paragraph> 61<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149664" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="23">end sub</paragraph> 62</body> 63</helpdocument> 64