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<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Space Function</title>
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<bookmark_value>Space function</bookmark_value>
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<paragraph id="hd_id3150499" role="heading" level="1" xml-lang="en-US"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03120201.xhp" name="Space Function">Space Function</link></paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3154927" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">Returns a string that consists of a specified amount of spaces.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="hd_id3153394" role="heading" level="2" xml-lang="en-US">Syntax:</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_id3143267" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US">Space (n As Long)</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="hd_id3147242" role="heading" level="2" xml-lang="en-US">Return value:</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3149233" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">String</paragraph>
<paragraph id="hd_id3156152" role="heading" level="2" xml-lang="en-US">Parameters:</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3143228" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US"> <emph>n:</emph> Numeric expression that defines the number of spaces in the string. The maximum allowed value of n is 65535.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="hd_id3154760" role="heading" level="2" xml-lang="en-US">Example:</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_idm1341575440" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US">Dim sText As String,sOut As String</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1341574192" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US">Dim iLen As Integer</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1341572960" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> iLen = 10</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1341571728" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> sText = "Las Vegas"</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1341570496" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> sOut = sText & Space(iLen) & sText & Chr(13) &_</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1341569184" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> sText & Space(iLen*2) & sText & Chr(13) &_</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1341567888" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> sText & Space(iLen*4) & sText & Chr(13)</paragraph>
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