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Control parameters

Via the getparam function and the setparam procedure it is possible to access the following control parameters of module mmsystem (the reader is reminded that parameters may be spelled with lower or upper case letters or a mix of both):

datefmt
Date text format.
datetimefmt
Date and time text format.
monthnames
List of month names.
sys_endparse
End of parsing position.
sys_fillchar
Padding character for text resize.
sys_pid
Process identification.
sys_qtype
Text quoting convention.
sys_regcache
Number of regular expressions in cache.
sys_sepchar
Separator character.
sys_trim
Whether to trim spaces in text parsing.
sys_txtmem
Size of the text block.
timefmt
Time text format.