1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2 3 4<!--*********************************************************** 5 * 6 * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 7 * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 8 * distributed with this work for additional information 9 * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 10 * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 11 * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 12 * with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at 13 * 14 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 15 * 16 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, 17 * software distributed under the License is distributed on an 18 * "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY 19 * KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the 20 * specific language governing permissions and limitations 21 * under the License. 22 * 23 ***********************************************************--> 24 25 26 27<helpdocument version="1.0"> 28<meta> 29<topic id="textsbasicshared03090401xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 30<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Call Statement [Runtime]</title> 31<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03090401.xhp</filename> 32</topic> 33<history> 34<created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created> 35<lastedited date="2004-08-24T09:48:22">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited> 36</history> 37</meta> 38<body> 39<section id="call"> 40<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3154422"><bookmark_value>Call statement</bookmark_value> 41</bookmark> 42<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154422" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03090401.xhp" name="Call Statement [Runtime]">Call Statement [Runtime]</link></paragraph> 43<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153394" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">Transfers the control of the program to a subroutine, a function, or a DLL procedure.</paragraph> 44</section> 45<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153345" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph> 46<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150984" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">[Call] Name [Parameter]</paragraph> 47<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3150771" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Parameters:</paragraph> 48<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148473" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6"> 49<emph>Name:</emph> Name of the subroutine, the function, or the DLL that you want to call</paragraph> 50<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148946" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="7"> 51<emph>Parameter:</emph> Parameters to pass to the procedure. The type and number of parameters is dependent on the routine that is executing.</paragraph> 52<paragraph role="note" id="par_id3154216" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8">A keyword is optional when you call a procedure. If a function is executed as an expression, the parameters must be enclosed by brackets in the statement. If a DLL is called, it must first be specified in the <emph>Declare-Statement</emph>.</paragraph> 53<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3125865" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="9">Example:</paragraph> 54<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3159254" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">Sub ExampleCall</paragraph> 55<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3161832" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">Dim sVar As String</paragraph> 56<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147317" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">sVar = "Office"</paragraph> 57<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145273" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">Call f_callFun sVar</paragraph> 58<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147435" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="16">end Sub</paragraph> 59<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155414" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="18">Sub f_callFun (sText as String)</paragraph> 60<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151112" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="19">Msgbox sText</paragraph> 61<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3148646" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="20">end sub</paragraph> 62</body> 63</helpdocument> 64