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30<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Option Explicit Statement [Runtime]</title>
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34<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created>
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40<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3145090"><bookmark_value>Option Explicit statement</bookmark_value>
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42<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3145090" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03103300.xhp" name="Option Explicit Statement [Runtime]">Option Explicit Statement [Runtime]</link></paragraph>
43<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148538" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">Specifies that every variable in the program code must be explicitly declared with the Dim statement.</paragraph>
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45<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3149763" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph>
46<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149514" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">Option Explicit</paragraph>
47<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3145315" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Parameters:</paragraph>
48<paragraph role="warning" id="par_id3145172" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">This statement must be added before the executable program code in a module.</paragraph>
49<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3125864" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="7">Example:</paragraph>
50<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154217" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8">Option Explicit</paragraph>
51<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156214" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9">Sub ExampleExplicit</paragraph>
52<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153193" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10">Dim sVar As String</paragraph>
53<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3159252" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">sVar = "Las Vegas"</paragraph>
54<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145787" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">For i% = 1 to 10 REM This results in a run-time error</paragraph>
55<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152598" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">REM</paragraph>
56<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145749" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">Next i%</paragraph>
57<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150010" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">End Sub</paragraph>
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