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="textsbasicshared03120202xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 34<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">String Function [Runtime]</title> 35<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03120202.xhp</filename> 36</topic> 37<history> 38<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> 39<lastedited date="2004-09-21T11:41:06">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited> 40</history> 41</meta> 42<body> 43<section id="string"> 44<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3147291"><bookmark_value>String function</bookmark_value> 45</bookmark> 46<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> 47<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> 48</section> 49<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3149516" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph> 50<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> 51<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3143270" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Return value:</paragraph> 52<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147530" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">String</paragraph> 53<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154923" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="7">Parameters:</paragraph> 54<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154347" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="8"> 55<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> 56<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148664" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9"> 57<emph>Expression:</emph> Numeric expression that defines the ASCII code for the character.</paragraph> 58<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150359" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10"> 59<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> 60<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 61<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 62<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3152920" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="11">Example:</paragraph> 63<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149203" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">Sub ExampleString</paragraph> 64<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154124" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">Dim sText as String</paragraph> 65<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147230" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">sText = String(10,"A")</paragraph> 66<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153970" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="16">Msgbox sText</paragraph> 67<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145785" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="18">sText = String(10,65)</paragraph> 68<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147288" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="19">Msgbox sText</paragraph> 69<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153138" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="24">End Sub</paragraph> 70</body> 71</helpdocument> 72