Mark Wickens

RIGHT$

Purpose

Returns a substring of a specified length from the right of a string.

Format

RIGHT$    ( string  , number of characters ] )
            └─┬──┘       └──────┬────────┘          
   String expression   Numeric expression  

Example

RIGHT$("ABCDEF", 3)

Parameters

1. string: String expression
2. number of characters: Numeric expression truncated to an integer in the range of 0 ≦ number of characters < 256.

Explanation

1. Returns a substring of a specified length counting from the right of string.
2. The entire string is returned as the substring when the specified number of characters is greater than the number of characters in the string.

See

• MID$
• LEFT$

Sample Program

10  A$="ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
20  PRINT A$
30  INPUT "1 TO 26 HOW MANY GET"; N
40  PRINT RIGHT$(A$, N)
50 END

Uses numeric input to display specified number of characters from end of alphabetic sequence.