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            <title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Chr Function</title>
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            <bookmark_value>Chr function</bookmark_value>
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        <paragraph id="hd_id3149205" role="heading" level="1" xml-lang="en-US"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03120102.xhp" name="Chr Function">Chr Function</link></paragraph>
        <paragraph id="par_id3153311" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">Returns the character that corresponds to the specified character code.</paragraph>
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    <paragraph id="par_id3150669" role="code" xml-lang="en-US">Chr(Expression As Integer)</paragraph>

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    <paragraph id="par_id3149295" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US"> <emph>Expression:</emph> a numeric expression that represents a valid 8-bit ASCII value (0-255) or a 16-bit Unicode value. (To support expressions with a nominally negative argument like <emph>Chr(&amp;H8000)</emph> in a backwards-compatible way, values in the range −32768 to −1 are internally mapped to the range 32768 to 65535.)</paragraph>

    <warning id="par_id991552913928635">When VBA compatibility mode is enabled (<link href="text/sbasic/shared/03103350.xhp" name="vbasupport"><literal>OPTION VBASUPPORT 1</literal></link>), <emph>Expression</emph> is a numeric expression that represents a valid 8-bit ASCII value (0-255) only.</warning>

    <paragraph id="par_id3159414" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">Use the <emph>Chr$</emph> function to send special control sequences to a printer or to another output source. You can also use it to insert quotation marks in a string expression.</paragraph>
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    <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id111552916434071"><embedvar href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err6"/>, when VBA compatibility mode is enabled and expression is greater than 255.</paragraph>

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        <paragraph id="par_id3154909" role="bascode" xml-lang="en-US">    ' This example inserts quotation marks (ASCII value 34) in a string.</paragraph>
        <paragraph id="par_id3151380" role="bascode" xml-lang="en-US">    MsgBox "A "+ Chr$(34)+"short" + Chr$(34)+" trip."</paragraph>
        <paragraph id="par_id3145174" role="bascode" xml-lang="en-US">    ' The printout appears in the dialog as: A "short" trip.</paragraph>
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