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Setting a range of dates

Standard Datapool Data Types

397

Phone - Suffix

Four-digit telephone numbers (telephone
numbers without area code or exchange).
To generate correct telephone number
suffix lengths, set Length to 4.

2400
8993
8498

Random Alphabetic String

Strings of random uppercase and
lowercase letters.
Length determines the number of
characters generated.

AQSEFuOZUIUIpAGsEM
DESieAiRFiEqiEIDiicEw
edEIDiIcisewsDIEdgP

Random Alphanumeric
String

Strings of random uppercase and
lowercase letters and digits.
Length determines the number of
characters generated.

AYcHI8WmeMeM0AK4
HSk9vGAQU79esDE
7Eeis93k4ELXie7S32siDI4E

Read From File

Assigns values from an ASCII text file to
the datapool column. For example, you
could export a database column to a text
file, and then use this data type to assign
the values in the file to a datapool column.

You can use this data type to generate
unique data. You can also use the Integers -
Signed and user-defined data types to
generate unique data.

For information about using this data type,
see Creating a Column of Values Outside
Rational Test on page 328.

Any values in an ASCII text
file.

Space Character

An empty string.

State Abbrev. - U.S.

Two-character state abbreviations.

MA
CA
NC

String Constant

A constant with the value of Seed. The
datapool column is filled with this one
alphanumeric value.

1234
AAA
1b1b

Time - HH.MM.SS

Times in the format shown. Hours range
from 00 (midnight) through 23 (11 pm).

To set a range of times from midnight to
2 pm, set

Minimum

to 0 and

Maximum

140000.

00.00.00 (midnight)
11.14.38
21.44.19

Standard data type name

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