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3.9 CS_DATAFMT Objects

CS_DATAFMT objects are a very thing wrapper around the Sybase CS_DATAFMT structure. They have the following attributes:

attribute	type
name	string
datatype	int
format	int
maxlength	int
scale	int
precision	int
status	int
count	int
usertype	int
strip	int

The strip attribute is an extension of the Sybase CS_DATAFMT structure. Please refer to the DataBuf documentation.

CS_DATAFMT structures are mostly used to create DataBuf objects for sending data to and receiving data from the server.

A CS_DATAFMT object created via the CS_DATAFMT() constructor will have the following values:

attribute	value
name	'0'
datatype	CS_CHAR_TYPE
format	CS_FMT_NULLTERM
maxlength	1
scale	0
precision	0
status	0
count	0
usertype	0
strip	0

You will almost certainly need to provide new values for some of the attributes before you use the object.

A CS_DATAFMT object created as a return value from the ct_bind() function will be ready to use for creating a DataBuf object.

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Release 0.37, documentation updated on April 07, 2005.