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<paragraph id="hd_id3153311" role="heading" level="1" xml-lang="en-US"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03120307.xhp" name="Right Function">Right Function</link></paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3150984" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">Returns the rightmost "n" characters of a string expression.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_id3149763" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">See also: <link href="text/sbasic/shared/03120303.xhp" name="Left Function">Left Function</link>.</paragraph>

<paragraph id="hd_id3145315" role="heading" level="2" xml-lang="en-US">Syntax:</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_id3153061" role="bascode" xml-lang="en-US">Right (Text As String, n As Long)</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_id3156344" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">String</paragraph>

<paragraph id="hd_id3146795" role="heading" level="2" xml-lang="en-US">Parameters:</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3153526" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US"> <emph>Text:</emph> Any string expression that you want to return the rightmost characters of.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3151211" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US"> <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>
<paragraph id="par_id3158410" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">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 id="hd_id3156212" role="heading" level="2" xml-lang="en-US">Example:</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_idm1341027360" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US">Sub ExampleUSDate</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1341026128" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US">Dim sInput As String</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1341024896" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US">Dim sUS_date As String</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_idm1341021888" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US">    sUS_date = Mid(sInput, 6, 2)</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1341020640" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US">    sUS_date = sUS_date &amp; "/"</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_idm1341018112" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US">    sUS_date = sUS_date &amp; "/"</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_idm1341015584" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US">    MsgBox sUS_date</paragraph>
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