1*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski 3*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski 4*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<!--*********************************************************** 5*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * 6*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 7*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 8*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * distributed with this work for additional information 9*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 10*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 11*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 12*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * with the License. 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To generate random integers in a given range, use the formula in the following example:</paragraph> 51*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 52*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 53*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3151118" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="15">Example:</paragraph> 54*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3145365" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="16">Sub ExampleRandomSelect</paragraph> 55*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3147426" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="17">Dim iVar As Integer</paragraph> 56*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3150011" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="18">iVar = Int((15 * Rnd) -2)</paragraph> 57*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3148575" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="19">Select Case iVar</paragraph> 58*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3154097" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="20">Case 1 To 5</paragraph> 59*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3147124" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="21">Print "Number from 1 to 5"</paragraph> 60*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3155418" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="22">Case 6, 7, 8</paragraph> 61*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3154943" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="23">Print "Number from 6 to 8"</paragraph> 62*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3145800" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="24">Case Is > 8 And iVar < 11</paragraph> 63*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3151074" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="25">Print "Greater than 8"</paragraph> 64*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3154016" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="26">Case Else</paragraph> 65*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3155602" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="27">Print "Outside range 1 to 10"</paragraph> 66*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3150328" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="28">End Select</paragraph> 67*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3154479" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="29">end sub</paragraph> 68*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</body> 69*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</helpdocument> 70