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="textsbasicshared03120201xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 34<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Space Function [Runtime]</title> 35<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03120201.xhp</filename> 36</topic> 37<history> 38<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> 39<lastedited date="2004-09-21T11:44:19">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited> 40</history> 41</meta> 42<body> 43<section id="space"> 44<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3150499"><bookmark_value>Space function</bookmark_value> 45</bookmark> 46<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150499" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03120201.xhp" name="Space Function [Runtime]">Space Function [Runtime]</link></paragraph> 47<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154927" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">Returns a string that consists of a specified amount of spaces.</paragraph> 48</section> 49<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153394" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph> 50<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3143267" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="4">Space (n As Long)</paragraph> 51<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3147242" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Return value:</paragraph> 52<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149233" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">String</paragraph> 53<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3156152" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="7">Parameters:</paragraph> 54<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3143228" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8"> 55<emph>n:</emph> Numeric expression that defines the number of spaces in the string. The maximum allowed value of n is 65535.</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_id3154760" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="9">Example:</paragraph> 59<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147560" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10">Sub ExampleSpace</paragraph> 60<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149670" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">Dim sText As String,sOut As String</paragraph> 61<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154938" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">DIm iLen As Integer</paragraph> 62<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153525" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">iLen = 10</paragraph> 63<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151211" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">sText = "Las Vegas"</paragraph> 64<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156282" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">sOut = sText & Space(iLen) & sText & Chr(13) &_</paragraph> 65<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3144760" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="16">sText & Space(iLen*2) & sText & Chr(13) &_</paragraph> 66<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3159149" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="17">sText & Space(iLen*4) & sText & Chr(13)</paragraph> 67<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154216" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="18">msgBox sOut,0,"Info:"</paragraph> 68<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3158409" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="19">End Sub</paragraph> 69</body> 70</helpdocument> 71