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