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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-07 09:06:44 +0000
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+ <topic id="textsbasicshared03090410xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH">
+ <title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Switch Function</title>
+ <filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03090410.xhp</filename>
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+<section id="switch">
+<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3148554">
+ <bookmark_value>Switch function</bookmark_value>
+</bookmark>
+
+<h1 id="hd_id3148554" xml-lang="en-US"><variable id="Switch_h1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03090410.xhp" name="Switch Function">Switch Function</link></variable></h1>
+<paragraph id="par_id3148522" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">Evaluates a list of arguments, consisting of an expression followed by a value. The Switch function returns a value that is associated with the expression that is passed by this function.</paragraph>
+</section>
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+<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#functsyntax"/>
+<bascode>
+<paragraph id="par_id3155934" role="bascode" xml-lang="en-US">Switch (Expression1, Value1[, Expression2, Value2[..., Expression_n, Value_n]]) As Variant</paragraph>
+</bascode>
+
+<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#functparameters"/>
+<paragraph id="par_id3153894" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">The <emph>Switch</emph> function evaluates the expressions from left to right, and then returns the value that is assigned to the function expression. If expression and value are not given as a pair, a runtime error occurs.</paragraph>
+<paragraph id="par_id3153990" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US"> <emph>Expression:</emph> The expression that you want to evaluate.</paragraph>
+<paragraph id="par_id3153394" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US"> <emph>Value:</emph> The value that you want to return if the expression is True.</paragraph>
+<paragraph id="par_id3153346" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">In the following example, the <emph>Switch</emph> function assigns the appropriate gender to the name that is passed to the function:</paragraph>
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+<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#functexample"/>
+<bascode>
+<paragraph id="par_idm1341052032" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US">Sub ExampleSwitch</paragraph>
+<paragraph id="par_idm1341050800" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US">Dim sGender As String</paragraph>
+<paragraph id="par_id31495790124" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> sGender = GetGenderIndex( "John" )</paragraph>
+<paragraph id="par_idm1341047840" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> MsgBox sGender</paragraph>
+<paragraph id="par_idm1341046608" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US">End Sub</paragraph>
+<paragraph id="par_idm1341045376" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> </paragraph>
+<paragraph id="par_idm1341044128" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US">Function GetGenderIndex (sName As String) As String</paragraph>
+<paragraph id="par_id3153361" role="bascode" xml-lang="en-US"> GetGenderIndex = Switch(sName = "Jane", "female", sName = "John", "male")</paragraph>
+<paragraph id="par_idm1341041088" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US">End Function</paragraph>
+</bascode>
+
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+ <embed href="text/sbasic/shared/03090402.xhp#Choose_h1"/>
+ <embed href="text/sbasic/shared/03090102.xhp#Select_h1"/>
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