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ADO: ActiveX Data Objects
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ADO: ActiveX Data Objects

by Jason T Roff
June 2001
Intermediate to advanced
620 pages
19h 29m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

Recordset.GetString Method — (Versions 2.0, 2.1, 2.5, 2.6)

Synopsis

Set Variant = recordset.GetString(StringFormat, NumRows, ColumnDelimiter, _
                                  RowDelimiter, NullExpr)

The GetString method returns the entire Recordset object as a String value.

Arguments

StringFormat (StringFormatEnum)

Indicates the format of the returned Recordset in String form.

NumRows

Optional. Indicates the number of rows to be converted to a String. If the value of this parameter is either missing or greater than the total number of records in the Recordset object, then all of the records are converted.

ColumnDelimeter

Optional. Used only when the StringFormat parameter is set to adClipString. Indicates the delimeter used between columns. The tab character is the default character.

RowDelimeter

Optional. Used only when the StringFormat parameter is set to adClipString. Indicates the delimeter used between rows. The carriage return character is the default character.

NullExpr

Optional. Used only when the StringFormat parameter is set to adClipString. Indicates the String used to replace Null characters. The default for this parameter is the empty String.

Returns

Variant

Description

The GetString method converts the contents of the Recordset object to a String value.

See Also

StringFormatEnum Enumeration

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