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="textsbasicshared03120307xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 27<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Right Function [Runtime]</title> 28<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03120307.xhp</filename> 29</topic> 30</meta> 31<body> 32<section id="right"> 33<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3153311"> 34<bookmark_value>Right function</bookmark_value> 35</bookmark> 36<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153311" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03120307.xhp" name="Right Function [Runtime]">Right Function [Runtime]</link></paragraph> 37<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150984" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Returns the rightmost "n" characters of a string expression.</paragraph> 38</section> 39<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149763" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">See also: <link href="text/sbasic/shared/03120303.xhp" name="Left Function">Left Function</link>.</paragraph> 40<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3145315" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Syntax:</paragraph> 41<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153061" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG">Right (Text As String, n As Long)</paragraph> 42<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3145068" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Return value:</paragraph> 43<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156344" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">String</paragraph> 44<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3146795" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Parameters:</paragraph> 45<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153526" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U"><emph>Text:</emph> Any string expression that you want to return the rightmost characters of.</paragraph> 46<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151211" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG"><emph>n:</emph> Numeric expression that defines the number of characters that you want to return. If <emph>n</emph> = 0, a zero-length string is returned. The maximum allowed value is 65535.</paragraph> 47<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> 48<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 49<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 50<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3156212" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Example:</paragraph> 51<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150869" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Sub ExampleUSDate</paragraph> 52<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153105" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Dim sInput As String</paragraph> 53<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154124" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Dim sUS_date As String</paragraph> 54<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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149561" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">sUS_date = Mid(sInput, 6, 2)</paragraph> 56<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146984" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">sUS_date = sUS_date & "/"</paragraph> 57<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155308" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">sUS_date = sUS_date & Right(sInput, 2)</paragraph> 58<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153727" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">sUS_date = sUS_date & "/"</paragraph> 59<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145365" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">sUS_date = sUS_date & Left(sInput, 4)</paragraph> 60<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152940" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">MsgBox sUS_date</paragraph> 61<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146120" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">End Sub</paragraph> 62</body> 63</helpdocument> 64