1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3 4<!-- 5 *********************************************************************** 6 * 7 * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. 8 * 9 * Copyright 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 10 * 11 * OpenOffice.org - a multi-platform office productivity suite 12 * 13 * This file is part of OpenOffice.org. 14 * 15 * OpenOffice.org is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify 16 * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 17 * only, as published by the Free Software Foundation. 18 * 19 * OpenOffice.org is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 20 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 21 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 22 * GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 for more details 23 * (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code). 24 * 25 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License 26 * version 3 along with OpenOffice.org. If not, see 27 * <http://www.openoffice.org/license.html> 28 * for a copy of the LGPLv3 License. 29 * 30 ************************************************************************ 31 --> 32 33<helpdocument version="1.0"> 34<meta> 35<topic id="textsbasicshared03090407xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 36<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Rem Statement [Runtime]</title> 37<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03090407.xhp</filename> 38</topic> 39<history> 40<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> 41<lastedited date="2006-02-02T13:24:56">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited> 42</history> 43</meta> 44<body> 45<section id="rem"> 46<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3154347"><bookmark_value>Rem statement</bookmark_value> 47<bookmark_value>comments;Rem statement</bookmark_value> 48</bookmark> 49<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154347" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03090407.xhp" name="Rem Statement [Runtime]">Rem Statement [Runtime]</link></paragraph> 50<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153525" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">Specifies that a program line is a comment.</paragraph> 51</section> 52<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153360" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph> 53<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154141" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">Rem Text</paragraph> 54<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3151042" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Parameters:</paragraph> 55<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150869" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6"> 56<emph>Text:</emph> Any text that serves as a comment.</paragraph> 57<paragraph role="tip" id="par_id3147318" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="7">You can use the single quotation mark instead of the Rem keyword to indicate that the text on a line is comments. This symbol can be inserted directly to the right of the program code, followed by a comment.</paragraph> 58<paragraph role="note" id="par_id6187017" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">You can use a space followed by the underline character _ as the last two characters of a line to continue the logical line on the next line. To continue comment lines, you must enter "Option Compatible" in the same Basic module.</paragraph> 59<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150012" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="8">Example:</paragraph> 60<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152939" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9">Sub ExampleMid</paragraph> 61<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153142" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10">DIM sVar As String</paragraph> 62<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145365" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">sVar = "Las Vegas"</paragraph> 63<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146984" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">Print Mid(sVar,3,5) REM Returns "s Veg"</paragraph> 64<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153140" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">REM Nothing occurs here</paragraph> 65<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152596" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">end sub</paragraph> 66</body> 67</helpdocument> 68