1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3 4<!--*********************************************************** 5 * 6 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 7 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 8 * distributed with this work for additional information 9 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 10 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 11 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 12 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 13 * 14 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 15 * 16 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 17 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 18 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 19 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 20 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 21 * under the License. 22 * 23 ***********************************************************--> 24 25 26 27<helpdocument version="1.0"> 28<meta> 29<topic id="textsbasicshared03020401xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 30<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">ChDir Statement [Runtime]</title> 31<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03020401.xhp</filename> 32</topic> 33<history> 34<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> 35<lastedited date="2007-03-20T10:10:45">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited> 36</history> 37</meta> 38<body> 39<section id="chdir"> 40<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3150178"><bookmark_value>ChDir statement</bookmark_value> 41</bookmark><comment>mw changed index entry</comment> 42<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150178" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03020401.xhp" name="ChDir Statement [Runtime]">ChDir Statement [Runtime]</link></paragraph> 43<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153126" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">Changes the current directory or drive.</paragraph> 44</section> 45<section id="i30692"> 46<paragraph role="warning" id="par_id9783013" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">This runtime statement currently does not work as documented. See <link href="https://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=30692">this issue</link> for more information.</paragraph> 47</section> 48<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154347" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph> 49<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153897" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">ChDir Text As String</paragraph> 50<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3148664" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Parameters:</paragraph> 51<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150543" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6"> 52<emph>Text:</emph> Any string expression that specifies the directory path or drive.</paragraph> 53<paragraph role="note" id="par_id3152598" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="7">If you only want to change the current drive, enter the drive letter followed by a colon.</paragraph> 54<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 55<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 56<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err76"/> 57<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3151116" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="8">Example:</paragraph> 58<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153364" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9">Sub ExampleChDir</paragraph> 59<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3147348" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10">Dim sDir1 as String , sDir2 as String</paragraph> 60<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3155308" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">sDir1 = "c:\Test"</paragraph> 61<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3154319" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">sDir2 = "d:\private"</paragraph> 62<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3154944" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">ChDir( sDir1 )</paragraph> 63<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3151074" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">msgbox CurDir</paragraph> 64<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3147124" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">ChDir( sDir2 )</paragraph> 65<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3148456" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="16">msgbox CurDir</paragraph> 66<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3149581" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="17">end sub</paragraph> 67</body> 68</helpdocument> 69