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<paragraph id="par_id3147242" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">Defines the default lower boundary for arrays as 0 or 1.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_idm1341310544" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US">Option Base 1</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_idm1341308080" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> Dim sVar(20) As String</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1341306832" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> MsgBox LBound(sVar())</paragraph>
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