Format Syntax

This appendix contains the symbols and formats you can use to create application-wide named formats and local formats for a particular field. A format specification controls the way a value will be formatted for display. There are three types of formats:

• String formats

• Number formats

• Date formats

This appendix describes the syntax of the format specifications in Data Access. For each type of format specification, there is a set of special symbols, each having a specific meaning. You can find information on the following topics:

• String Formats

• Number Formats

• Date Formats

• Literal Characters