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="textsbasicshared03102900xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 30<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">LBound Function [Runtime]</title> 31<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03102900.xhp</filename> 32</topic> 33<history> 34<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> 35<lastedited date="2004-08-24T13:07:51">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited> 36</history> 37</meta> 38<body> 39<section id="lbound"> 40<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3156027"><bookmark_value>LBound function</bookmark_value> 41</bookmark> 42<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3156027" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03102900.xhp" name="LBound Function [Runtime]">LBound Function [Runtime]</link></paragraph> 43<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147226" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">Returns the lower boundary of an array.</paragraph> 44</section> 45<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3148538" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph> 46<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150503" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">LBound (ArrayName [, Dimension])</paragraph> 47<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150984" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Return value:</paragraph> 48<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153126" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">Integer</paragraph> 49<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3144500" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="7">Parameters:</paragraph> 50<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145069" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8"> 51<emph>ArrayName:</emph> Name of the array for which you want to return the upper (<emph>Ubound</emph>) or the lower (<emph>LBound</emph>) boundary of the array dimension.</paragraph> 52<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149457" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9"> 53<emph>[Dimension]:</emph> Integer that specifies which dimension to return the upper (<emph>Ubound</emph>) or the lower (<emph>LBound</emph>) boundary for. If a value is not specified, the first dimension is assumed.</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#err9"/> 57<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3145171" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="10">Example:</paragraph> 58<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148673" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">Sub ExampleUboundLbound</paragraph> 59<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153193" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">Dim sVar(10 to 20) As String</paragraph> 60<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148452" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">print LBound(sVar())</paragraph> 61<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153768" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">print UBound(sVar())</paragraph> 62<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147288" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">end Sub</paragraph> 63<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146974" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="16">Sub ExampleUboundLbound2</paragraph> 64<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146985" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="17">Dim sVar(10 to 20,5 To 70) As String</paragraph> 65<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145365" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="18">Print LBound(sVar()) REM Returns 10</paragraph> 66<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150486" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="19">Print UBound(sVar()) REM Returns 20</paragraph> 67<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149665" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="20">Print LBound(sVar(),2) REM Returns 5</paragraph> 68<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3159154" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="21">Print UBound(sVar(),2) REM Returns 70</paragraph> 69<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154013" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="22">end Sub</paragraph> 70</body> 71</helpdocument> 72