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Select Case statement

By James Crowley, published on 14 Jul 2001
James Crowley James first started this website when learning Visual Basic back in 1999 whilst studying his GCSEs. The site grew steadily over the years while being run as a hobby - to a regular monthly audience ...
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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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Comments

  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?

  4. Developer Fusion Bot
    01 Jan 1999 at 00:00

    This thread is for discussions of Select Case statement.

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