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30<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">String Function [Runtime]</title>
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34<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created>
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40<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3147291"><bookmark_value>String function</bookmark_value>
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42<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3147291" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03120202.xhp" name="String Function [Runtime]">String Function [Runtime]</link></paragraph>
43<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147242" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">Creates a string according to the specified character, or the first character of a string expression that is passed to the function.</paragraph>
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45<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3149516" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph>
46<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149233" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="4">String (n As Long, {expression As Integer | character As String})</paragraph>
47<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3143270" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Return value:</paragraph>
48<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147530" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">String</paragraph>
49<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154923" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="7">Parameters:</paragraph>
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51<emph>n:</emph> Numeric expression that indicates the number of characters to return in the string. The maximum allowed value of n is 65535.</paragraph>
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53<emph>Expression:</emph> Numeric expression that defines the ASCII code for the character.</paragraph>
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55<emph>Character:</emph> Any single character used to build the return string, or any string of which only the first character will be used.</paragraph>
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58<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3152920" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="11">Example:</paragraph>
59<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149203" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">Sub ExampleString</paragraph>
60<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154124" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">Dim sText as String</paragraph>
61<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147230" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">sText = String(10,"A")</paragraph>
62<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153970" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="16">Msgbox sText</paragraph>
63<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145785" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="18">sText = String(10,65)</paragraph>
64<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147288" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="19">Msgbox sText</paragraph>
65<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153138" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="24">End Sub</paragraph>
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