1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3 4<!--*********************************************************************** 5 * 6 * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. 7 * 8 * Copyright 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 9 * 10 * OpenOffice.org - a multi-platform office productivity suite 11 * 12 * This file is part of OpenOffice.org. 13 * 14 * OpenOffice.org is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify 15 * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 16 * only, as published by the Free Software Foundation. 17 * 18 * OpenOffice.org is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 19 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 20 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 21 * GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 for more details 22 * (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code). 23 * 24 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License 25 * version 3 along with OpenOffice.org. If not, see 26 * <http://www.openoffice.org/license.html> 27 * for a copy of the LGPLv3 License. 28 * 29 ************************************************************************--> 30 31<helpdocument version="1.0"> 32<meta> 33<topic id="textsbasicshared03120102xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 34<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Chr Function [Runtime]</title> 35<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03120102.xhp</filename> 36</topic> 37<history> 38<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> 39<lastedited date="2004-12-13T14:13:52">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited> 40</history> 41</meta> 42<body> 43<section id="chr"> 44<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3149205"><bookmark_value>Chr function</bookmark_value> 45</bookmark> 46<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3149205" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03120102.xhp" name="Chr Function [Runtime]">Chr Function [Runtime]</link></paragraph> 47<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153311" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">Returns the character that corresponds to the specified character code.</paragraph> 48</section> 49<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3149514" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph> 50<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150669" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">Chr(Expression As Integer)</paragraph> 51<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3143228" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Return value:</paragraph> 52<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153824" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">String</paragraph> 53<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3148944" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="7">Parameters:</paragraph> 54<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149295" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8"> 55<emph>Expression:</emph> Numeric variables that represent a valid 8 bit ASCII value (0-255) or a 16 bit Unicode value.</paragraph> 56<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3159414" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9">Use the <emph>Chr$</emph> function to send special control sequences to a printer or to another output source. You can also use it to insert quotation marks in a string expression.</paragraph> 57<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 58<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 59<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154366" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="10">Example:</paragraph> 60<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3144502" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">sub ExampleChr</paragraph> 61<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154909" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="12">REM This example inserts quotation marks (ASCII value 34) in a string.</paragraph> 62<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151380" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">MsgBox "A "+ Chr$(34)+"short" + Chr$(34)+" trip."</paragraph> 63<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145174" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">REM The printout appears in the dialog as: A "short" trip.</paragraph> 64<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154685" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">end sub</paragraph> 65<section id="relatedtopics"> 66<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10668" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03120101.xhp">ASC</link></paragraph> 67</section> 68</body> 69</helpdocument> 70