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27<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">AND Operator [Runtime]</title>
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34<bookmark_value>AND operator (logical)</bookmark_value>
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36<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3146117" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03060100.xhp" name="AND Operator [Runtime]">AND Operator [Runtime]</link></paragraph>
37<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3143268" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">Logically combines two expressions.</paragraph>
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39<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3147574" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph>
40<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156344" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">Result = Expression1 And Expression2</paragraph>
41<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3148946" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Parameters:</paragraph>
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43<emph>Result:</emph> Any numeric variable that records the result of the combination.</paragraph>
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45<emph>Expression1, Expression2:</emph> Any expressions that you want to combine.</paragraph>
46<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156215" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8">Boolean expressions combined with AND only return the value <emph>True</emph> if both expressions evaluate to <emph>True</emph>:</paragraph>
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48<emph>True</emph> AND <emph>True</emph> returns <emph>True</emph>; for all other combinations the result is <emph>False</emph>.</paragraph>
49<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153768" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10">The AND operator also performs a bitwise comparison of identically positioned bits in two numeric expressions.</paragraph>
50<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153727" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="11">Example:</paragraph>
51<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149481" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">Sub ExampleAnd</paragraph>
52<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152577" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="13">Dim A as Variant, B as Variant, C as Variant, D as Variant</paragraph>
53<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152598" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">Dim vVarOut as Variant</paragraph>
54<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153092" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">A = 10: B = 8: C = 6: D = Null</paragraph>
55<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146984" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="16">vVarOut = A &gt; B And B &gt; C REM returns -1</paragraph>
56<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154014" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="17">vVarOut = B &gt; A And B &gt; C REM returns 0</paragraph>
57<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149262" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="18">vVarOut = A &gt; B And B &gt; D REM returns 0</paragraph>
58<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145751" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="19">vVarOut = (B &gt; D And B &gt; A) REM returns 0</paragraph>
59<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147394" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="20">vVarOut = B And A REM returns 8 due to the bitwise AND combination of both arguments</paragraph>
60<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151073" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="21">End Sub</paragraph>
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