VB.NET Language in a Nutshell, Second Edition

Name

CChar Function

Named Arguments

No

Syntax

CChar(expression)

expression (required; String)

Any string expression

Return Value

A value of type Char

Description

Converts the first character in a string expression to a Char data type

Rules at a Glance

CChar extracts the first character of expression and converts it to a Char data type.

Example

MsgBox(CChar("abc"))      ' Displays a
MsgBox(CChar("56"))       ' Displays 5

Programming Tips and Gotchas

• If you wish to convert a numeric code to its corresponding Char data type, use the ChrW function.

• Like most of the conversion functions, CChar is not actually a function in the Microsoft.VisualBasic namespace. Instead, it is similar to a Visual C++ macro; the compiler translates the function call into inline code.

See Also

Chr, ChrW Functions