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GetCharacters Function (UtsScreen)
Attachmate.Reflection.Objects.Emulation.UTS Library > UtsScreen Object : GetCharacters Function
The starting screen row position
The starting screen column position
The number of characters to return
Gets ScreenCharacter objects from the specified location, each representing one character at a screen location.
Syntax
object.GetCharacters( _
   ByVal row As Long, _
   ByVal column As Long, _
   ByVal length As Long _
) As _ScreenCharacter()

Parameters

row
The starting screen row position
column
The starting screen column position
length
The number of characters to return

Return Value

An array of ScreenCharacter objects starting at the specified location.
Exceptions
ExceptionDescription
System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException This exception is thrown if the row or column parameters are outside the range of valid values: (1 to Rows) or (1 to Columns).
Remarks
The length argument specifies the number of screen bytes to get. In SBCS, the number of screen bytes is the same as that of ScreenCharacter objects. In DBCS, the two numbers can be different. If the last byte is only half of a DBCS character, the last byte is not returned.
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