1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3 4<!--*********************************************************************** 5 * 6 * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. 7 * 8 * Copyright 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 9 * 10 * OpenOffice.org - a multi-platform office productivity suite 11 * 12 * This file is part of OpenOffice.org. 13 * 14 * OpenOffice.org is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify 15 * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 16 * only, as published by the Free Software Foundation. 17 * 18 * OpenOffice.org is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 19 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 20 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 21 * GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 for more details 22 * (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code). 23 * 24 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License 25 * version 3 along with OpenOffice.org. If not, see 26 * <http://www.openoffice.org/license.html> 27 * for a copy of the LGPLv3 License. 28 * 29 ************************************************************************--> 30 31<helpdocument version="1.0"> 32<meta> 33<topic id="textsbasicshared03090410xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 34<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Switch Function [Runtime]</title> 35<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03090410.xhp</filename> 36</topic> 37<history> 38<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> 39<lastedited date="2004-08-24T14:34:49">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited> 40</history> 41</meta> 42<body> 43<section id="switch"> 44<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3148554"><bookmark_value>Switch function</bookmark_value> 45</bookmark> 46<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> 47<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> 48</section> 49<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154863" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph> 50<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155934" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">Switch (Expression1, Value1[, Expression2, Value2[..., Expression_n, Value_n]])</paragraph> 51<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3149119" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Parameters:</paragraph> 52<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> 53<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153990" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="7"> 54<emph>Expression:</emph> The expression that you want to evaluate.</paragraph> 55<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153394" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8"> 56<emph>Value:</emph> The value that you want to return if the expression is True.</paragraph> 57<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> 58<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 59<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 60<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3159157" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="10">Example:</paragraph> 61<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147573" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">Sub ExampleSwitch</paragraph> 62<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3143270" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">Dim sGender As String</paragraph> 63<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149579" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">sGender = GetGenderIndex( "John" )</paragraph> 64<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153626" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">MsgBox sGender</paragraph> 65<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147560" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">End Sub</paragraph> 66<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154758" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="17">Function GetGenderIndex (sName As String) As String</paragraph> 67<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153361" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="18">GetGenderIndex = Switch(sName = "Jane", "female", sName = "John", "male")</paragraph> 68<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154939" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="19">End Function</paragraph> 69</body> 70</helpdocument> 71