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  36 <topic id="textsbasicshared03104100xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH">
  37 <title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Optional (in Function Statement) [Runtime]</title>
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  41 <created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created>
  42 <lastedited date="2004-08-24T13:52:04">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited>
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  46 <section id="optional">
  47 <bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3149205"><bookmark_value>Optional function</bookmark_value>
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  49 <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3149205" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03104100.xhp" name="Optional (in Function Statement) [Runtime]">Optional (in Function Statement) [Runtime]</link></paragraph>
  50 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3143267" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">Allows you to define parameters that are passed to a function as optional.</paragraph>
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  52 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3155419" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="3">See also: <link href="text/sbasic/shared/03104000.xhp" name="IsMissing">IsMissing</link></paragraph>
  53 <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153824" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="4">Syntax:</paragraph>
  54 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3159157" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="5">Function MyFunction(Text1 As String, Optional Arg2, Optional Arg3)</paragraph>
  55 <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3145610" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="7">Examples:</paragraph>
  56 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154347" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8">Result = MyFunction("Here", 1, "There") ' all arguments are passed.</paragraph>
  57 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146795" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9">Result = MyFunction("Test", ,1) ' second argument is missing.</paragraph>
  58 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153897" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10">See also <link href="text/sbasic/guide/sample_code.xhp" name="Examples">Examples</link>.</paragraph>
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