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The Switch function returns a value that is associated with the expression that is passed by this function.</paragraph> 38cdf0e10cSrcweir</section> 39cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3154863" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph> 40cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155934" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">Switch (Expression1, Value1[, Expression2, Value2[..., Expression_n, Value_n]])</paragraph> 41cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3149119" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Parameters:</paragraph> 42cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153894" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">The <emph>Switch</emph> function evaluates the expressions from left to right, and then returns the value that is assigned to the function expression. If expression and value are not given as a pair, a runtime error occurs.</paragraph> 43cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153990" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="7"> 44cdf0e10cSrcweir<emph>Expression:</emph> The expression that you want to evaluate.</paragraph> 45cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153394" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8"> 46cdf0e10cSrcweir<emph>Value:</emph> The value that you want to return if the expression is True.</paragraph> 47cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153346" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9">In the following example, the <emph>Switch</emph> function assigns the appropriate gender to the name that is passed to the function:</paragraph> 48cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#errorcode"/> 49cdf0e10cSrcweir<embed href="text/sbasic/shared/00000003.xhp#err5"/> 50cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3159157" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="10">Example:</paragraph> 51cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147573" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">Sub ExampleSwitch</paragraph> 52cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3143270" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">Dim sGender As String</paragraph> 53cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149579" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">sGender = GetGenderIndex( "John" )</paragraph> 54cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153626" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">MsgBox sGender</paragraph> 55cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147560" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">End Sub</paragraph> 56cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154758" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="17">Function GetGenderIndex (sName As String) As String</paragraph> 57cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153361" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="18">GetGenderIndex = Switch(sName = "Jane", "female", sName = "John", "male")</paragraph> 58cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154939" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="19">End Function</paragraph> 59cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 60cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 61