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The maximum allowed value of n is 65535.</paragraph> 46cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148664" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9"> 47cdf0e10cSrcweir<emph>Expression:</emph> Numeric expression that defines the ASCII code for the character.</paragraph> 48cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150359" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10"> 49cdf0e10cSrcweir<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> 50cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 51cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 52cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3152920" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="11">Example:</paragraph> 53cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149203" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">Sub ExampleString</paragraph> 54cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154124" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">Dim sText as String</paragraph> 55cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147230" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">sText = String(10,"A")</paragraph> 56cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153970" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="16">Msgbox sText</paragraph> 57cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145785" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="18">sText = String(10,65)</paragraph> 58cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147288" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="19">Msgbox sText</paragraph> 59cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153138" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="24">End Sub</paragraph> 60cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 61cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 62