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  37 <title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">AND Operator [Runtime]</title>
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  41 <created date="2003-10-31T00:00:00">Sun Microsystems, Inc.</created>
  42 <lastedited date="2005-02-01T12:42:55">converted from old format - fpe</lastedited>
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  47 <bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3146117"><bookmark_value>AND operator (logical)</bookmark_value>
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  49 <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3146117" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03060100.xhp" name="AND Operator [Runtime]">AND Operator [Runtime]</link></paragraph>
  50 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3143268" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="2">Logically combines two expressions.</paragraph>
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  52 <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3147574" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph>
  53 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156344" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="4">Result = Expression1 And Expression2</paragraph>
  54 <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3148946" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Parameters:</paragraph>
  55 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149457" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6">
  56 <emph>Result:</emph> Any numeric variable that records the result of the combination.</paragraph>
  57 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150541" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="7">
  58 <emph>Expression1, Expression2:</emph> Any expressions that you want to combine.</paragraph>
  59 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156215" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8">Boolean expressions combined with AND only return the value <emph>True</emph> if both expressions evaluate to <emph>True</emph>:</paragraph>
  60 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3150870" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9">
  61 <emph>True</emph> AND <emph>True</emph> returns <emph>True</emph>; for all other combinations the result is <emph>False</emph>.</paragraph>
  62 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153768" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10">The AND operator also performs a bitwise comparison of identically positioned bits in two numeric expressions.</paragraph>
  63 <paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3153727" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="11">Example:</paragraph>
  64 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149481" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">Sub ExampleAnd</paragraph>
  65 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152577" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="13">Dim A as Variant, B as Variant, C as Variant, D as Variant</paragraph>
  66 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3152598" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">Dim vVarOut as Variant</paragraph>
  67 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153092" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">A = 10: B = 8: C = 6: D = Null</paragraph>
  68 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3146984" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="16">vVarOut = A &gt; B And B &gt; C REM returns -1</paragraph>
  69 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154014" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="17">vVarOut = B &gt; A And B &gt; C REM returns 0</paragraph>
  70 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3149262" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="18">vVarOut = A &gt; B And B &gt; D REM returns 0</paragraph>
  71 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145751" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="19">vVarOut = (B &gt; D And B &gt; A) REM returns 0</paragraph>
  72 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3147394" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="20">vVarOut = B And A REM returns 8 due to the bitwise AND combination of both arguments</paragraph>
  73 <paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3151073" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="21">End Sub</paragraph>
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