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See the License for the 20 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 21 * under the License. 22 * 23 ***********************************************************--> 24 25 26 27<helpdocument version="1.0"> 28<meta> 29<topic id="textsbasicshared03120307xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 30<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Right Function [Runtime]</title> 31<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03120307.xhp</filename> 32</topic> 33<history> 34<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> 35<lastedited date="2004-09-21T12:00:17">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited> 36</history> 37</meta> 38<body> 39<section id="right"> 40<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3153311"><bookmark_value>Right function</bookmark_value> 41</bookmark> 42<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153311" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03120307.xhp" name="Right Function [Runtime]">Right Function [Runtime]</link></paragraph> 43<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150984" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">Returns the rightmost "n" characters of a string expression.</paragraph> 44</section> 45<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149763" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="3">See also: <link href="text/sbasic/shared/03120303.xhp" name="Left Function">Left Function</link>.</paragraph> 46<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3145315" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="4">Syntax:</paragraph> 47<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153061" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="5">Right (Text As String, n As Long)</paragraph> 48<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3145068" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="6">Return value:</paragraph> 49<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156344" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="7">String</paragraph> 50<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3146795" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="8">Parameters:</paragraph> 51<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153526" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9"> 52<emph>Text:</emph> Any string expression that you want to return the rightmost characters of.</paragraph> 53<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151211" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="10"> 54<emph>n:</emph> Numeric expression that defines the number of characters that you want to return. If <emph>n</emph> = 0, a zero-length string is returned. The maximum allowed value is 65535.</paragraph> 55<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3158410" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">The following example converts a date in YYYY-MM-DD format to the US date format (MM/DD/YYYY).</paragraph> 56<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 57<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 58<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3156212" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="12">Example:</paragraph> 59<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150869" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">Sub ExampleUSDate</paragraph> 60<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153105" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">Dim sInput As String</paragraph> 61<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154124" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">Dim sUS_date As String</paragraph> 62<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3159252" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="16">sInput = InputBox("Please input a date in the international format 'YYYY-MM-DD'")</paragraph> 63<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149561" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="17">sUS_date = Mid(sInput, 6, 2)</paragraph> 64<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146984" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="18">sUS_date = sUS_date & "/"</paragraph> 65<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155308" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="19">sUS_date = sUS_date & Right(sInput, 2)</paragraph> 66<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153727" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="20">sUS_date = sUS_date & "/"</paragraph> 67<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145365" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="21">sUS_date = sUS_date & Left(sInput, 4)</paragraph> 68<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152940" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="22">MsgBox sUS_date</paragraph> 69<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146120" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="23">End Sub</paragraph> 70</body> 71</helpdocument> 72