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<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Choose Function [Runtime]</title>
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<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created>
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<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3143271"><bookmark_value>Choose function</bookmark_value>
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<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3143271" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03090402.xhp" name="Choose Function [Runtime]">Choose Function [Runtime]</link></paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149234" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">Returns a selected value from a list of arguments.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3148943" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="bascode" id="par_id3147560" xml-lang="en-US" oldref="4">Choose (Index, Selection1[, Selection2, ... [,Selection_n]])</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154346" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Parameters:</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148664" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">
<emph>Index:</emph> A numeric expression that specifies the value to return.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150791" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="7">
<emph>Selection1:</emph> Any expression that contains one of the possible choices.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151043" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8">The <emph>Choose</emph> function returns a value from the list of expressions based on the index value. If Index = 1, the function returns the first expression in the list, if index i= 2, it returns the second expression, and so on.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153192" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9">If the index value is less than 1 or greater than the number of expressions listed, the function returns a Null value.</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156281" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10">The following example uses the <emph>Choose</emph> function to select a string from several strings that form a menu:</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150439" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="11">Example:</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US">Dim sReturn As String</paragraph>
<paragraph role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> sReturn = ChooseMenu(2)</paragraph>
<paragraph role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> Print sReturn</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US">Function ChooseMenu(Index As Integer)</paragraph>
<paragraph role="bascode" id="par_id3156443" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="20"> ChooseMenu = Choose(Index, "Quick Format", "Save Format", "System Format")</paragraph>
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