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<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">ConvertToURL Function [Runtime]</title>
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<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3152801" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03120312.xhp" name="ConvertToURL Function [Runtime]">ConvertToURL Function [Runtime]</link></paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148538" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">Converts a system file name to a file URL.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150669" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154285" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">ConvertToURL(filename)</paragraph>
<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150984" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Return value:</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147530" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">String</paragraph>
<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3148550" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="7">Parameters:</paragraph>
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<emph>Filename:</emph> A file name as string.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153361" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="9">Example:</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150792" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10">systemFile$ = "c:\folder\mytext.txt"</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154365" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">url$ = ConvertToURL( systemFile$ )</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151042" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">print url$</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154909" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">systemFileAgain$ = ConvertFromURL( url$ )</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3144762" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">print systemFileAgain$</paragraph>
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