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="textsbasicshared03090410xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 30<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Switch Function [Runtime]</title> 31<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03090410.xhp</filename> 32</topic> 33<history> 34<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> 35<lastedited date="2004-08-24T14:34:49">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited> 36</history> 37</meta> 38<body> 39<section id="switch"> 40<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3148554"><bookmark_value>Switch function</bookmark_value> 41</bookmark> 42<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3148554" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03090410.xhp" name="Switch Function [Runtime]">Switch Function [Runtime]</link></paragraph> 43<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148522" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">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> 44</section> 45<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154863" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph> 46<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155934" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">Switch (Expression1, Value1[, Expression2, Value2[..., Expression_n, Value_n]])</paragraph> 47<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3149119" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Parameters:</paragraph> 48<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153894" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">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> 49<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153990" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="7"> 50<emph>Expression:</emph> The expression that you want to evaluate.</paragraph> 51<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153394" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8"> 52<emph>Value:</emph> The value that you want to return if the expression is True.</paragraph> 53<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153346" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9">In the following example, the <emph>Switch</emph> function assigns the appropriate gender to the name that is passed to the function:</paragraph> 54<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 55<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 56<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3159157" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="10">Example:</paragraph> 57<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147573" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">Sub ExampleSwitch</paragraph> 58<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3143270" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">Dim sGender As String</paragraph> 59<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149579" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">sGender = GetGenderIndex( "John" )</paragraph> 60<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153626" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">MsgBox sGender</paragraph> 61<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147560" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">End Sub</paragraph> 62<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154758" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="17">Function GetGenderIndex (sName As String) As String</paragraph> 63<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153361" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="18">GetGenderIndex = Switch(sName = "Jane", "female", sName = "John", "male")</paragraph> 64<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154939" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="19">End Function</paragraph> 65</body> 66</helpdocument> 67