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<paragraph id="hd_id3143271" role="heading" level="1" xml-lang="en-US"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03090402.xhp" name="Choose Function">Choose Function</link></paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3149234" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">Returns a selected value from a list of arguments.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="hd_id3148943" role="heading" level="2" xml-lang="en-US">Syntax:</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_id3147560" role="bascode" xml-lang="en-US">Choose (Index, Selection1[, Selection2, ... [,Selection_n]])</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="hd_id3154346" role="heading" level="2" xml-lang="en-US">Parameters:</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3148664" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US"> <emph>Index:</emph> A numeric expression that specifies the value to return.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3150791" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US"> <emph>Selection1:</emph> Any expression that contains one of the possible choices.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3151043" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">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 id="par_id3153192" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">If the index value is less than 1 or greater than the number of expressions listed, the function returns a Null value.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3156281" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">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 id="hd_id3150439" role="heading" level="2" xml-lang="en-US">Example:</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_idm871796960" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> sReturn = ChooseMenu(2)</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm871795712" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> Print sReturn</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_idm871792000" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US">Function ChooseMenu(Index As Integer)</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3156443" role="bascode" xml-lang="en-US"> ChooseMenu = Choose(Index, "Quick Format", "Save Format", "System Format")</paragraph>
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