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="textsbasicshared03103300xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 27<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Option Explicit Statement [Runtime]</title> 28<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03103300.xhp</filename> 29</topic> 30</meta> 31<body> 32<section id="optionexplicit"> 33<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3145090"> 34<bookmark_value>Option Explicit statement</bookmark_value> 35</bookmark> 36<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3145090" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03103300.xhp" name="Option Explicit Statement [Runtime]">Option Explicit Statement [Runtime]</link></paragraph> 37<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148538" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Specifies that every variable in the program code must be explicitly declared with the Dim statement.</paragraph> 38</section> 39<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3149763" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Syntax:</paragraph> 40<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149514" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Option Explicit</paragraph> 41<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3145315" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Parameters:</paragraph> 42<paragraph role="warning" id="par_id3145172" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">This statement must be added before the executable program code in a module.</paragraph> 43<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3125864" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Example:</paragraph> 44<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154217" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Option Explicit</paragraph> 45<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156214" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Sub ExampleExplicit</paragraph> 46<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153193" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Dim sVar As String</paragraph> 47<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3159252" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">sVar = "Las Vegas"</paragraph> 48<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145787" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">For i% = 1 to 10 REM This results in a run-time error</paragraph> 49<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152598" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">REM</paragraph> 50<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145749" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Next i%</paragraph> 51<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150010" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">End Sub</paragraph> 52</body> 53</helpdocument> 54