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If <emph>n</emph> = 0, a zero-length string is returned. The maximum allowed value is 65535.</paragraph> 54cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150791" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10">The following example converts a date in YYYY.MM.DD format to MM/DD/YYYY format.</paragraph> 55cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 56cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 57cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3125863" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="11">Example:</paragraph> 58cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3144761" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">Sub ExampleUSDate</paragraph> 59cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153194" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">Dim sInput As String</paragraph> 60cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154217" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">Dim sUS_date As String</paragraph> 61cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150448" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">sInput = InputBox("Please input a date in the international format 'YYYY-MM-DD'")</paragraph> 62cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149203" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="16">sUS_date = Mid(sInput, 6, 2)</paragraph> 63cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150439" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="17">sUS_date = sUS_date & "/"</paragraph> 64cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153770" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="18">sUS_date = sUS_date & Right(sInput, 2)</paragraph> 65cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3161833" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="19">sUS_date = sUS_date & "/"</paragraph> 66cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147215" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="20">sUS_date = sUS_date & Left(sInput, 4)</paragraph> 67cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149666" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="21">MsgBox sUS_date</paragraph> 68cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153138" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="22">End Sub</paragraph> 69cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 70cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 71