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