Purpose
Accesses individual bytes of a string on a system with a double-byte character system. You can call this function from the MapBasic window in MapInfo Pro.
Syntax
MidByte$( string_expr, position, length ) string_expr is a string expression.
position is an integer numeric expression, indicating a starting position in the string.
length is an integer numeric expression, indicating the number of bytes to return.
Return Value
String
Description
The MidByte$() function returns individual bytes of a string.
Use the MidByte$() function when you need to extract a range of bytes from a string, and the application is running on a system that uses a double-byte character set (DBCS systems). For example, the Japanese version of Microsoft Windows uses a double-byte character system.
On systems with single-byte character sets, or in Unicode versions of MapInfo Pro, the results returned by the MidByte$() function are identical to the results returned by the Mid$() function.
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