The first example sets the field separator to a colon in the data exported to c:\Employees.txt.

SET OPTION isql_field_separator=':';
SELECT Surname, GivenName FROM Employees WHERE EmployeeID < 150;
OUTPUT TO c:\Employees.txt FORMAT TEXT;

This code places the following data in Employees.txt:

'Whitney': 'Fran'
'Cobb':'Matthew'
'Chin':'Philip'
'Jordan':'Julie'

The start and end characters (in this case, single quotation marks) depend on the isql_quote setting.

The next example sets the field separator to a tab in the data exported to c:\Employees.txt.

SET OPTION isql_field_separator='\t';
SELECT Surname, GivenName FROM Employees WHERE EmployeeID < 150;
OUTPUT TO c:\Employees.txt FORMAT TEXT;

This code places the following data in Employees.txt:

'Whitney' 'Fran'
'Cobb' 'Matthew'
'Chin' 'Philip'
'Jordan' 'Julie'

The start and end characters (in this case, single quotation marks) depend on the isql_quote setting. The escape character (in this case the backslash) depends on the isql_escape_character setting.