puts.
       </p></dd><dt id="ECPG-INFORMIX-FUNCTIONS-DTCVFMTASC"><span class="term"><code class="function">dtcvfmtasc</code></span> <a href="#ECPG-INFORMIX-FUNCTIONS-DTCVFMTASC" class="id_link">#</a></dt><dd><p>
        Parses a timestamp from its textual representation
        using a format mask into a timestamp variable.
</p><pre class="synopsis">
dtcvfmtasc(char *inbuf, char *fmtstr, timestamp *dtvalue)
</pre><p>
        The function receives the string to parse (<code class="literal">inbuf</code>), th