HP Neoview Release 2.5 Software - Manual (Page 37)

Table 5-2 Typeformats: format_definition Date/Time Format String Examples (continued)
Example Description
"%m/%d/%y %H:%M" Specify a formatstring for a timestamp field with
mixed delimiters, in the format of "10/1/2007 12:45"
typeformats
{
formatname date "%C%y%m%d",
formatname date1 "%C%y-%m-%d"
} Two typeformats of datatype date, with formats of
"20070131"
and "2007-01-31", respectively.
Dataformats
The dataformats section describes the data format of sources and targets. Format definitions
are for delimited, fixed-length, or Neoview SQL table format.
dataformats
{
format_definition [, format_definition ]...
}
format-definition:
delimited-format | fixed-length-format | SQL-table-format
format-definition
One or more occurrences of format-definition, separated by a comma (,). The last
format-definition
should not use the comma separator.
Dataformats: Delimited Format
formatname delimited
[options format-options]
[fields delimited by character]
[records separated by character]
[optionally qualified by character]
field-definitions
format-options
(
option_name = option_value [, option_name = option_value ]...
)
formatname
The name you create for this dataformat. The name must be unique within the dataformats
namespace. formatname is case-insensitive and cannot exceed 64 bytes.
options format-options
“crossoveryear” (page 54)
fields delimited by character
defines the character separating each data field.
For information, see “Field Delimiter Character” (page 76) .
records separated by <nl> [ <nl> ...]
Defines the character sequence separating each data record. The only allowed record separator
is one or more <nl>'s.
For information, see “Record Separator Character ” (page 76) .
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