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<paragraph id="hd_id3149798" role="heading" level="1" xml-lang="en-US"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03103500.xhp" name="Static Statement">Static Statement</link></paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3153311" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">Declares a variable or an array at the procedure level within a subroutine or a function, so that the values of the variable or the array are retained after exiting the subroutine or function. Dim statement conventions are also valid.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_id3147264" role="warning" xml-lang="en-US">The <emph>Static statement</emph> cannot be used to define variable arrays. Arrays must be specified according to a fixed size.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="hd_id3149657" role="heading" level="2" xml-lang="en-US">Syntax:</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_id3150400" role="bascode" xml-lang="en-US">Static VarName[(start To end)] [As VarType], VarName2[(start To end)] [As VarType], ...</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="hd_id3148452" role="heading" level="2" xml-lang="en-US">Example:</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_idm1340791536" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US">Sub ExampleStatic</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1340790304" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US">Dim iCount As Integer, iResult As Integer</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1340789040" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> For iCount = 0 To 2</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1340787808" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> iResult = InitVar()</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1340786560" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> Next iCount</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3150870" role="bascode" xml-lang="en-US"> MsgBox iResult,0,"The answer is"</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1340783600" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US">End Sub</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1340782368" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> </paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3151115" role="bascode" xml-lang="en-US">' Function for initialization of the static variable</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1340779328" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US">Function InitVar() As Integer</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1340778080" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> Static iInit As Integer</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id1057161" role="bascode" xml-lang="en-US"> Const iMinimum As Integer = 40 ' minimum return value of this function</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id580462" role="bascode" xml-lang="en-US"> If iInit = 0 Then ' check if initialized</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1340950464" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> iInit = iMinimum</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1340949216" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> Else</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1340947984" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> iInit = iInit + 1</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1340946736" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> End If</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1340945504" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> InitVar = iInit</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1340944272" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US">End Function</paragraph>
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