Manuals/calci/MIDB

MIDB (Text,Start_Char,Num_Char)

where,

$Text$ is a text string containing the characters to be extracted,
$Start-Char$ is the starting position of the first character to be extracted, and
represents the number of characters to be displayed in bytes.
- MIDB(), returns a specific number of characters from a text string starting at the position you specify.MIDB is intended for use with languages that use the double-byte character set (DBCS).

Description

MIDB (Text,Start_Char,Num_Char) e.g. MIDB("<#*>",1,2) displays <# as a result.

MIDB works with the languages that use 'Double Byte Character Set' (DBCS).
MIDB counts each double byte character as 2, when language is set to DBCS. Else it counts 1 byte per character.
If argument $Text$ is directly entered in the command, it should be enclosed in double quotes (e.g. "Name").
$Start-Char$ should be > 1, else Calci displays #N/A error message.
If $Start-Char$ > 'length of text', Calci displays empty text ("").
If $Start-Char$ + $Num-Char$ > 'length of text', Calci displays the characters up to the end of text.
If $Num-Char$ is negative, Calci displays an #N/A error message.

Examples

ABC DEF

123123

=MIDB(A1,1,5) : Displays 5 character string in cell A1 starting from 1st position. 
Displays ABC D as the output. Space character is also included.
=MIDB(A2,1,1) : Displays 1 character string in cell A3 starting from 1st position. 
Displays * as the output.

Need to give examples with characters/language supporting DBCS