1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3<!--*********************************************************** 4 * 5 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 6 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 7 * distributed with this work for additional information 8 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 9 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 10 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 11 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 12 * 13 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 14 * 15 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 16 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 17 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 18 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 19 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 20 * under the License. 21 * 22 ***********************************************************--> 23 24<helpdocument version="1.0"> 25<meta> 26<topic id="textsbasicshared03120202xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 27<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">String Function [Runtime]</title> 28<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03120202.xhp</filename> 29</topic> 30</meta> 31<body> 32<section id="string"> 33<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3147291"> 34<bookmark_value>String function</bookmark_value> 35</bookmark> 36<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> 37<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> 38</section> 39<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3149516" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph> 40<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> 41<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3143270" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Return value:</paragraph> 42<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147530" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">String</paragraph> 43<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154923" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="7">Parameters:</paragraph> 44<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154347" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="8"> 45<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> 46<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148664" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9"> 47<emph>Expression:</emph> Numeric expression that defines the ASCII code for the character.</paragraph> 48<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150359" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10"> 49<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> 50<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 51<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 52<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3152920" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="11">Example:</paragraph> 53<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149203" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">Sub ExampleString</paragraph> 54<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154124" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">Dim sText as String</paragraph> 55<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147230" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">sText = String(10,"A")</paragraph> 56<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153970" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="16">Msgbox sText</paragraph> 57<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145785" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="18">sText = String(10,65)</paragraph> 58<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147288" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="19">Msgbox sText</paragraph> 59<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153138" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="24">End Sub</paragraph> 60</body> 61</helpdocument> 62