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  1. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
  2. <html><head><title>Chr Function [Runtime]</title><meta name="filename" content="text/sbasic/common/03120102"/><meta name="language" content="en-US"/><help:css-file-link xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/><!--The CSS style header method for setting styles--><style type="text/css">
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  6.         p.P2{
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  13.    <help:to-be-embedded Eid="chr" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">
  14.    <p class="Head1"><help:link Id="66384">Chr Function [Runtime]</help:link></p>
  15.    <p class="Paragraph">Returns the character corresponding to the specified character code.</p>
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  17.    <p class="Paragraph"><span class="T1">Syntax</span>:</p>
  18.    <p class="Paragraph">Chr(Expression As Integer)<help:key-word value="Chr" tag="kw66384_1" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/></p>
  19.    <p class="Paragraph"><span class="T1">Return value</span>:</p>
  20.    <p class="Paragraph">String</p>
  21.    <p class="Paragraph"><span class="T1">Parameter</span>:</p>
  22.    <p class="Paragraph">Expression: Numeric variables representing a valid 8 bit ASCII value (0-255) or a 16 bit unicode value.</p>
  23.    <p class="Paragraph">The <span class="T1">Chr$</span> function is often used to send special control sequences to a printer or other output source. Another use can be, for example, to insert quotation marks in a string expression, which is otherwise problematic in a programming environment since the quote represents the start of a string in <help:productname xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">%PRODUCTNAME</help:productname> Basic source text.</p>
  24.    <p class="P2">Example:</p>
  25.    <p class="PropText">sub ExampleChr</p>
  26.    <p class="PropText">REM This example inserts an apostrophe (ASCII value 34) in a string.</p>
  27.    <p class="PropText">MsgBox "A "+ Chr$(34)+"short" + Chr$(34)+" trip."</p>
  28.    <p class="PropText">REM The printout appears in the dialog as: A "short" trip.</p>
  29.    <p class="PropText">end sub</p>
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