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DATEDELIM

Specifies a single character as the delimiter between the year, month, and day components to override the default delimiter determined by the DATE directive specification, or implicitly based on default ISO 8601 format (yyyy-mm-dd).

The specified delimiter is used in character output host variables and, if DETECTDATE is also specified, in character input host variables.

Syntax

DATEDELIM=character

Properties:

Default:

None

Dependencies:

None; however, DATEDELIM can be used with DATE to specify an alternative delimiter. See DATE for details.

Scope:

Used at compile time:	Yes
Behavior at run time:	Source file

See Scope - OpenESQL SQL Compiler Directive Options for more information.

Comments:

DATEDELIM set without DATE overrides the default ISO 8601 delimiter, a dash (-) character, for date values.

DATEDELIM set with DATE overrides the default delimiter for the specified DATE parameter. For example, the default delimiter for DATE=USA is a forward slash character (/).

See DATE, DETECTDATE, and OpenESQL Datetime Data Types Handling for more information.