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Any remaining positions in the string variable are replaced by spaces. If the string is longer than the string variable, only the leftmost characters up to the length of the string variable are copied. With the <emph>LSet</emph> statement, you can also copy a user-defined type variable to another variable of the same type.</paragraph> 57<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3156282" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="11">Example:</paragraph> 58<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153193" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">Sub ExampleRLSet</paragraph> 59<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150768" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">Dim sVar As String</paragraph> 60<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150447" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">Dim sExpr As String</paragraph> 61<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149561" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="16">sVar = String(40,"*")</paragraph> 62<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153768" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="17">sExpr = "SBX"</paragraph> 63<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152940" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="18">REM Align "SBX" within the 40-character reference string</paragraph> 64<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148647" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="19">REM Replace asterisks with spaces</paragraph> 65<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146119" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="20">RSet sVar = sExpr</paragraph> 66<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153365" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="21">Print ">"; sVar; "<"</paragraph> 67<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149260" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="23">sVar = String(5,"*")</paragraph> 68<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147436" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="24">sExpr = "123457896"</paragraph> 69<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146923" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="25">RSet sVar = sExpr</paragraph> 70<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151114" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="26">Print ">"; sVar; "<"</paragraph> 71<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155855" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="28">sVar = String(40,"*")</paragraph> 72<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145253" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="29">sExpr = "SBX"</paragraph> 73<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151075" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="30">REM Left-align "SBX" within the 40-character reference string</paragraph> 74<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147126" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="31">LSet sVar = sExpr</paragraph> 75<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154792" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="32">Print ">"; sVar; "<"</paragraph> 76<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154942" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="34">sVar = String(5,"*")</paragraph> 77<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155603" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="35">sExpr = "123456789"</paragraph> 78<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150716" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="36">LSet sVar = sExpr</paragraph> 79<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146969" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="37">Print ">"; sVar; "<"</paragraph> 80<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150749" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="38">End Sub</paragraph> 81</body> 82</helpdocument> 83