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<title xml-lang="en-US" id="tit">Right Function [Runtime]</title>
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<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created>
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<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3153311"><bookmark_value>Right;function</bookmark_value></bookmark><paragraph id="hd_id3153311" role="heading" level="1" oldref="1" l10n="U" xml-lang="en-US"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03120307.xhp" name="Right Function [Runtime]">Right Function [Runtime]</link></paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150984" l10n="U" xml-lang="en-US" oldref="2">Returns the rightmost &quot;n&quot; characters of a string expression.</paragraph>
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<paragraph xml-lang="en-US" role="paragraph" id="par_id3149763" l10n="U" oldref="3">See also: <link href="text/sbasic/shared/03120303.xhp" name="Left Function">Left Function</link>.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="heading" level="2" id="hd_id3145315" l10n="U" xml-lang="en-US" oldref="4">Syntax:</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153061" l10n="U" xml-lang="en-US" oldref="5">Right (Text As String, n As Integer)</paragraph>
<paragraph role="heading" level="2" id="hd_id3145068" l10n="U" xml-lang="en-US" oldref="6">Return value:</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156344" l10n="U" xml-lang="en-US" oldref="7">String</paragraph>
<paragraph role="heading" level="2" id="hd_id3146795" l10n="U" xml-lang="en-US" oldref="8">Parameters:</paragraph>
<paragraph l10n="U" role="paragraph" id="par_id3153526" xml-lang="en-US" oldref="9"><emph>Text:</emph> Any string expression that you want to return the rightmost characters of.</paragraph>
<paragraph l10n="U" xml-lang="en-US" role="paragraph" id="par_id3151211" oldref="10"><emph>n:</emph> Integer expression that defines the number of characters that you want to return. If <emph>n</emph> = 0, a zero-length string is returned.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3158410" l10n="U" xml-lang="en-US" oldref="11">The following example converts a date in YYYY-MM-DD format to the US date format (MM/DD/YYYY).</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="heading" level="2" id="hd_id3156212" l10n="U" xml-lang="en-US" oldref="12">Example:</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150869" l10n="U" xml-lang="en-US" oldref="13">Sub ExampleUSDate</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153105" l10n="U" xml-lang="en-US" oldref="14">Dim sInput As String</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154124" l10n="U" xml-lang="en-US" oldref="15">Dim sUS_date As String</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3159252" l10n="U" xml-lang="en-US" oldref="16">sInput = InputBox(&quot;Please input a date in the international format 'YYYY-MM-DD'&quot;)</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149561" l10n="U" xml-lang="en-US" oldref="17">sUS_date = Mid(sInput, 6, 2)</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146984" l10n="U" xml-lang="en-US" oldref="18">sUS_date = sUS_date &amp; &quot;/&quot;</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155308" l10n="U" xml-lang="en-US" oldref="19">sUS_date = sUS_date &amp; Right(sInput, 2)</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153727" l10n="U" xml-lang="en-US" oldref="20">sUS_date = sUS_date &amp; &quot;/&quot;</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145365" l10n="U" xml-lang="en-US" oldref="21">sUS_date = sUS_date &amp; Left(sInput, 4)</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152940" l10n="U" xml-lang="en-US" oldref="22">MsgBox sUS_date</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146120" l10n="U" xml-lang="en-US" oldref="23">End Sub</paragraph>
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