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<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">ConvertToURL Function</title>
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<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created>
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<section id="converttourl">
<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3152801"><bookmark_value>ConvertToURL function</bookmark_value>
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<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3152801" xml-lang="en-US" level="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03120312.xhp" name="ConvertToURL Function">ConvertToURL Function</link></paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148538" xml-lang="en-US">Converts a system file name to a file URL.</paragraph>
</section>
<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150669" xml-lang="en-US" level="2">Syntax:</paragraph>
<bascode>
<paragraph role="bascode" id="par_id3154285" xml-lang="en-US">ConvertToURL(filename)</paragraph>
</bascode>
<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150984" xml-lang="en-US" level="2">Return value:</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147530" xml-lang="en-US">String</paragraph>
<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3148550" xml-lang="en-US" level="2">Parameters:</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148947" xml-lang="en-US">
<emph>Filename:</emph> A file name as string.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153361" xml-lang="en-US" level="2">Example:</paragraph>
<bascode>
<paragraph role="bascode" id="par_id3150792" xml-lang="en-US">systemFile$ = "c:\folder\mytext.txt"</paragraph>
<paragraph role="bascode" localize="false" id="par_id3154365" xml-lang="en-US">url$ = ConvertToURL( systemFile$ )</paragraph>
<paragraph role="bascode" localize="false" id="par_id3151042" xml-lang="en-US">print url$</paragraph>
<paragraph role="bascode" localize="false" id="par_id3154909" xml-lang="en-US">systemFileAgain$ = ConvertFromURL( url$ )</paragraph>
<paragraph role="bascode" localize="false" id="par_id3144762" xml-lang="en-US">print systemFileAgain$</paragraph>
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