VBA Right Function in Excel

VBA Right function in Excel is categorized as a Text/String function in VBA. It is a built-in function in MS Office Excel. It returns the specified number of characters from a given string, starting from the Right most character. It has two mandatory parameters. It can be used as a Worksheet function or VBA function.

The VBA Right function can use in either procedure or function in a VBA editor window in Excel. We can use this VBA Right function any number of times in any number of procedures or functions. In the following section we learn what is the syntax and parameters of the Right function, where we can use this VBA Right function and real-time examples.

Table of Contents

Objective
Syntax of VBA Right Function
Parameters or Arguments
Where we can apply or use the VBA Right Function?
Example 1: Extract a substring of length 5 from end of the string
Example 2: Extract a substring of length 30 from end of the string
Example 3: Get Last Name from Full Name using Right Function
Example 4: Get Email extension from email using Right Function
Quick View Examples & Results
Instructions to Run VBA Macro Code
Other Useful Resources

Syntax of VBA Right Function

The syntax of the VBA Right function is

Right (string, [length])

Note: This Right function returns a sub-string (Specified number of characters) from Right side.

Parameters or Arguments

There are two mandatory parameters or arguments for the Right Function.
Where
string: The string is a mandatory argument. The string from which we want to extract a substring from right side.
Length: The length is a required argument. It represents the number of characters of the substring that you want to extract from a string.

Where we can apply or use the VBA Right Function?

We can use this VBA Right function in MS Office 365, MS Excel 2016, MS Excel 2013, 2011, Excel 2010, Excel 2007, Excel 2003, Excel 2016 for Mac, Excel 2011 for Mac, Excel Online, Excel for iPhone, Excel for iPad, Excel for Android tablets and Excel for Android Mobiles.

Example 1: Extract a sub-string of length 5 from end of the string

Here is a simple example of the VBA Right function. This below example macro uses the Right function and extracts the Right most four characters from a given string.

'Get First Name from Full Name using Right Function
Sub VBA_RIGHT_Function_Ex3()

    Dim sString As String
    Dim sLName As String
    Dim sPosition As Integer
    Dim sSubString As String
    
    sString = "F_Name L_Name"
    sPosition = InStr(1, sString, " ")
    sLName = Right(sString, Len(sString) - sPosition)
    
    MsgBox "The Last Name is :" & sLName, vbInformation, "VBA Right Function"

End Sub

Output: The variable sSubString now contains the result as ‘Beautiful’. Here is the screen shot of first example output.

Example 2: Extract a sub string of length 30 from end of the string

Here is another example of the VBA Right function. This below example macro uses the Right function and extracts the Right most 30 characters from a given string. There are only 17 available characters. So, it displays only 17 characters instead of 30 characters.

'Extract a substring of length 30 from starting of the string.
Sub VBA_RIGHT_Function_Ex2()

    Dim sString As String, sSubString As String
    
    sString = "Life is Beautiful"
    
    sSubString = Right(sString, 30)
    
    MsgBox "The substring is :" & sSubString, vbInformation, "VBA Right Function"

End Sub

Output: The variable sSubString now contains the result as ‘Life is Beautiful’. Here is the screen shot of second example output.

Example 3: Get Last Name from Full Name using Right Function

Here is one more example. We are extracting a last name from full name using Instr and Right function.

'Get First Name from Full Name using Right Function
Sub VBA_RIGHT_Function_Ex3()

    Dim sString As String
    Dim sLName As String
    Dim sPosition As Integer
    Dim sSubString As String
    
    sString = "F_Name L_Name"
    sPosition = InStr(1, sString, " ")
    sLName = Right(sString, Len(sString) - sPosition)
    
    MsgBox "The Last Name is :" & sLName, vbInformation, "VBA Right Function"

End Sub

Output: The variable sLName now contains the result as ‘L_Name’. Here is the screen shot of third example output.

Example 4: Get Email Extension from email using Right Function

Here is another example for Right function. Here getting Email extension from email using Instr and Right functions.

'Get Email extension from email using Right Function
Sub VBA_RIGHT_Function_Ex4()

    Dim sString As String
    Dim sEName As String
    Dim sPosition As Integer
    Dim sSubString As String
    
    sString = "ABCD@hotmail.com"
    sPosition = InStr(1, sString, "@")
    sEName = Right(sString, Len(sString) - sPosition)
    
    MsgBox "Specified Email Extension is : " & sEName, vbInformation, "VBA Right Function"

End Sub

Output: The variable sSubString now contains the result as ‘hotmail.com. Here is the screen shot of fourth example output.

Quick View Examples & Results

You can find quick view of Right function examples and its results.


'VBA Right Function Quick View Examples
Sub VBA_Right_Function()

    Dim sString As String, sSubString As String
    sString = "FName LName"
    
    sSubString = Right(sString, 5)  'Result: 'LName'
    Debug.Print sSubString
    sSubString = Right(sString, 6)  'Result: ' LName'
    Debug.Print sSubString
    sSubString = Right(sString, 50)  'Result: 'FName LName'
    Debug.Print sSubString
    sSubString = Right(sString, 0)  'Result: Displays Nothing
    Debug.Print sSubString
    sSubString = Right(sString, -1) 'Result: Displays Error
    Debug.Print sSubString
    
End Sub