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  38 <topic id="textsbasicshared03103100xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH">
  39 <title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Let Statement [Runtime]</title>
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  43 <created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created>
  44 <lastedited date="2005-10-11T13:33:52">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited>
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  48 <section id="let">
  49 <bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3147242"><bookmark_value>Let statement</bookmark_value>
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  51 <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3147242" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03103100.xhp" name="Let Statement [Runtime]">Let Statement [Runtime]</link></paragraph>
  52 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149233" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">Assigns a value to a variable.</paragraph>
  53 </section>
  54 <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153127" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph>
  55 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154285" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">[Let] VarName=Expression</paragraph>
  56 <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3148944" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Parameters:</paragraph>
  57 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147560" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">
  58 <emph>VarName:</emph> Variable that you want to assign a value to. Value and variable type must be compatible.</paragraph>
  59 <paragraph role="note" id="par_id3148451" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="7">As in most BASIC dialects, the keyword <emph>Let</emph> is optional.</paragraph>
  60 <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3145785" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="8">Example:</paragraph>
  61 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150441" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9">Sub ExampleLen</paragraph>
  62 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3159254" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="10">Dim sText as String</paragraph>
  63 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149481" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">Let sText = "Las Vegas"</paragraph>
  64 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152939" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">msgbox Len(sText) REM returns 9</paragraph>
  65 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146921" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">End Sub</paragraph>
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