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| <title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Choose Function [Runtime]</title> |
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| <created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> |
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| <section id="choose"> |
| <bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3143271"><bookmark_value>Choose function</bookmark_value> |
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| <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3143271" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03090402.xhp" name="Choose Function [Runtime]">Choose Function [Runtime]</link></paragraph> |
| <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149234" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">Returns a selected value from a list of arguments.</paragraph> |
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| <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3148943" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph> |
| <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147560" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">Choose (Index, Selection1[, Selection2, ... [,Selection_n]])</paragraph> |
| <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154346" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Parameters:</paragraph> |
| <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148664" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6"> |
| <emph>Index:</emph> A numeric expression that specifies the value to return.</paragraph> |
| <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150791" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="7"> |
| <emph>Selection1:</emph> Any expression that contains one of the possible choices.</paragraph> |
| <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151043" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8">The <emph>Choose</emph> function returns a value from the list of expressions based on the index value. If Index = 1, the function returns the first expression in the list, if index i= 2, it returns the second expression, and so on.</paragraph> |
| <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153192" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9">If the index value is less than 1 or greater than the number of expressions listed, the function returns a Null value.</paragraph> |
| <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156281" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10">The following example uses the <emph>Choose</emph> function to select a string from several strings that form a menu:</paragraph> |
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| <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150439" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="11">Example:</paragraph> |
| <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153091" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">Sub ExampleChoose</paragraph> |
| <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152597" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">Dim sReturn As String</paragraph> |
| <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155855" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">sReturn = ChooseMenu(2)</paragraph> |
| <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148575" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">Print sReturn</paragraph> |
| <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154012" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="16">end sub</paragraph> |
| <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146921" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="19">Function ChooseMenu(Index As Integer)</paragraph> |
| <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156443" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="20">ChooseMenu = Choose(Index, "Quick Format", "Save Format", "System Format")</paragraph> |
| <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148645" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="21">End Function</paragraph> |
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