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STRTOCHAR

InstallShield 2014 » InstallScript Language Reference

The STRTOCHAR function returns the first character of szString as data of type CHAR.

Syntax

STRTOCHAR ( szString );

Parameters

Return Values

Additional Information

The STRTOCHAR function is useful when passing string literals to functions. Since InstallScript interprets double and single quotes as string delimiters, attempting to pass a literal character, for example, 'a', to a function that expects a character will cause a compiler error. To avoid this problem, pass the character literal to STRTOCHAR and pass the result of calling this function as the argument; for example:

Sprintf( szString, "%c", STRTOCHAR('a') );