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If <emph>n</emph> = 0, a zero-length string is returned. The maximum allowed value is 65535.</paragraph> 47*17dbe355Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3158410" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">The following example converts a date in YYYY-MM-DD format to the US date format (MM/DD/YYYY).</paragraph> 48cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 49cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 50*17dbe355Smseidel<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3156212" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Example:</paragraph> 51*17dbe355Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150869" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Sub ExampleUSDate</paragraph> 52*17dbe355Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153105" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Dim sInput As String</paragraph> 53*17dbe355Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154124" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Dim sUS_date As String</paragraph> 54*17dbe355Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3159252" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">sInput = InputBox("Please input a date in the international format 'YYYY-MM-DD'")</paragraph> 55*17dbe355Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149561" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">sUS_date = Mid(sInput, 6, 2)</paragraph> 56*17dbe355Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146984" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">sUS_date = sUS_date & "/"</paragraph> 57*17dbe355Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155308" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">sUS_date = sUS_date & Right(sInput, 2)</paragraph> 58*17dbe355Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153727" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">sUS_date = sUS_date & "/"</paragraph> 59*17dbe355Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145365" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">sUS_date = sUS_date & Left(sInput, 4)</paragraph> 60*17dbe355Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152940" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">MsgBox sUS_date</paragraph> 61*17dbe355Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146120" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">End Sub</paragraph> 62cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 63cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 64