1*cdf0e10cSrcweir<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2*cdf0e10cSrcweir 3*cdf0e10cSrcweir 4*cdf0e10cSrcweir<!--*********************************************************************** 5*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 6*cdf0e10cSrcweir * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER. 7*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 8*cdf0e10cSrcweir * Copyright 2000, 2010 Oracle and/or its affiliates. 9*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 10*cdf0e10cSrcweir * OpenOffice.org - a multi-platform office productivity suite 11*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 12*cdf0e10cSrcweir * This file is part of OpenOffice.org. 13*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 14*cdf0e10cSrcweir * OpenOffice.org is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify 15*cdf0e10cSrcweir * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 16*cdf0e10cSrcweir * only, as published by the Free Software Foundation. 17*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 18*cdf0e10cSrcweir * OpenOffice.org is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, 19*cdf0e10cSrcweir * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of 20*cdf0e10cSrcweir * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the 21*cdf0e10cSrcweir * GNU Lesser General Public License version 3 for more details 22*cdf0e10cSrcweir * (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code). 23*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 24*cdf0e10cSrcweir * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License 25*cdf0e10cSrcweir * version 3 along with OpenOffice.org. If not, see 26*cdf0e10cSrcweir * <http://www.openoffice.org/license.html> 27*cdf0e10cSrcweir * for a copy of the LGPLv3 License. 28*cdf0e10cSrcweir * 29*cdf0e10cSrcweir ************************************************************************--> 30*cdf0e10cSrcweir 31*cdf0e10cSrcweir<helpdocument version="1.0"> 32*cdf0e10cSrcweir<meta> 33*cdf0e10cSrcweir<topic id="textsbasicshared03104100xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 34*cdf0e10cSrcweir<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Optional (in Function Statement) [Runtime]</title> 35*cdf0e10cSrcweir<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03104100.xhp</filename> 36*cdf0e10cSrcweir</topic> 37*cdf0e10cSrcweir<history> 38*cdf0e10cSrcweir<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> 39*cdf0e10cSrcweir<lastedited date="2004-08-24T13:52:04">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited> 40*cdf0e10cSrcweir</history> 41*cdf0e10cSrcweir</meta> 42*cdf0e10cSrcweir<body> 43*cdf0e10cSrcweir<section id="optional"> 44*cdf0e10cSrcweir<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3149205"><bookmark_value>Optional function</bookmark_value> 45*cdf0e10cSrcweir</bookmark> 46*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3149205" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03104100.xhp" name="Optional (in Function Statement) [Runtime]">Optional (in Function Statement) [Runtime]</link></paragraph> 47*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3143267" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">Allows you to define parameters that are passed to a function as optional.</paragraph> 48*cdf0e10cSrcweir</section> 49*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155419" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="3">See also: <link href="text/sbasic/shared/03104000.xhp" name="IsMissing">IsMissing</link></paragraph> 50*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153824" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="4">Syntax:</paragraph> 51*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3159157" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="5">Function MyFunction(Text1 As String, Optional Arg2, Optional Arg3)</paragraph> 52*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3145610" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="7">Examples:</paragraph> 53*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154347" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8">Result = MyFunction("Here", 1, "There") ' all arguments are passed.</paragraph> 54*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146795" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9">Result = MyFunction("Test", ,1) ' second argument is missing.</paragraph> 55*cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153897" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10">See also <link href="text/sbasic/guide/sample_code.xhp" name="Examples">Examples</link>.</paragraph> 56*cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 57*cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 58