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Select Case statement

By James Crowley, published on 14 Jul 2001
James Crowley James first started writing tutorials on Visual Basic in 1999 whilst starting this website (then known as VB Web). Since then, the site has grown rapidly, and James has written numerous tutorials, articles and reviews on VB, PHP, ASP and C#. In October 2003, James formed the company Developer Fusion Ltd, which owns this website, and also offers various development services. In his spare time, he's a 3rd year undergraduate studying Computer Science in the UK. He's also a Visual Basic MVP.
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  1. Introduction
  2. Syntax
  3. Usage

Syntax

The Select Case statement uses the following syntax:

Select Case testexpression
   Case expressionlist1
      statements
   Case expressionlist2
      statements
   Case Else
      statements
End Select

testexpression is a single expression, that is evaluated at the top of the list. The expressionlist then lists possible conditions and if the testexpression is equal to this case, the code in that section is run.

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  1. Sonic D Hedgehog
    12 Sep 2004 at 16:46

    You want Case "SomeString", "NoString".

  2. jayatheerth
    17 Mar 2004 at 06:37

    This below code segment throws casting exception
    Select Case str1
               Case "SomeString" Or "NoString"
                   Response.Write("OK")
               Case "SmallString" And "BigString"
                   Response.Write("AND here")
           End Select


    Can you please explain the structure of Case statement in detail ?
    Thanx in Adv.

  3. HomeSite4u
    27 Jan 2002 at 22:17

    If you put the Case Is statement first, will it run this message box and not look at the others?

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