ENFORM Reference Manual

SET Statement
Statements
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SET Statement The SET statement allows you to initialize or reset a user variable, user table, or a
parameter. The SET statement also allows you to reset option variables. The syntax of
the SET statement is:
SET
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user-variable-name
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param-name
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user-variable-name or user-table-name "[" subscript "]"
is the name of an element defined by a DECLARE statement.
param-name
is the name of a parameter defined by a PARAM statement.
string-literal
is one or more alphanumeric characters enclosed within quotation marks.
unsigned-digit
is an unsigned numeric literal.
option-variable-name
is the name of an option variable.
numeric-literal
is an integer.
display-format
is the default display format enclosed in quotation marks for printing dates or
times when AS DATE * and AS TIME * clauses are used.