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  1. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
  2. <html><head><title>Choose Function [Runtime]</title><meta name="filename" content="text/sbasic/common/03090402"/><meta name="language" content="en-US"/><help:css-file-link xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/><!--The CSS style header method for setting styles--><style type="text/css">
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  14.   <p class="Head1"><help:link Id="66429">Choose Function [Runtime]</help:link></p>
  15.   <p class="Paragraph">Returns a selected value from a list of arguments.</p>
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  17.   <p class="Paragraph"><span class="T1">Syntax</span>:</p>
  18.   <p class="Paragraph">Choose (Index, Selection1[, Selection2, ... [,Selection_n]]) <help:key-word value="Choose" tag="kw66429_1" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"/></p>
  19.   <p class="Paragraph"><span class="T1">Parameter</span>:</p>
  20.   <p class="Paragraph">Index: A numeric expression that specifies the value to return.</p>
  21.   <p class="Paragraph">Selection1: Any expression containing one of the possible choices.</p>
  22.   <p class="Paragraph">The <span class="T1">Choose</span> 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.</p>
  23.   <p class="Paragraph">If the index value is less than 1 or greater than the number of expressions listed, the function returns a Null value.</p>
  24.   <p class="Paragraph">The following example uses the <span class="T1">Choose</span> function to select a string from several which constitute a menu:</p>
  25.   <p class="P2">Example:</p>
  26.   <p class="PropText">Sub ExampleChoose</p>
  27.   <p class="PropText">Dim sReturn As String</p>
  28.   <p class="PropText">sReturn = ChooseMenu(2)</p>
  29.   <p class="PropText">Print sReturn</p>
  30.   <p class="PropText">end sub</p>
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  33.   <p class="PropText">Function ChooseMenu(Index As Integer)</p>
  34.   <p class="PropText">ChooseMenu = Choose(Index, "Quick Format", "Save Format", "System Format")</p>
  35.   <p class="PropText">End Function</p>
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