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<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Erase Statement</title>
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<history><created date="2005-04-25T14:43:31">Erase</created></history>
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<section id="erase">
<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id624713"><bookmark_value>Erase statement</bookmark_value>
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<paragraph role="heading" id="par_idN10548" xml-lang="en-US" level="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03104700.xhp">Erase Statement</link></paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN10558" xml-lang="en-US">Erases the contents of array elements of fixed size arrays, and releases the memory used by arrays of variable size.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="image" id="par_id831588865616326"><image src="media/helpimg/sbasic/Erase_statement.svg" id="img_id651588865616326"><alt id="alt_id281588865616326">Erase syntax</alt></image></paragraph>
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<paragraph role="bascode" id="par_idN105E6" xml-lang="en-US">Erase array1 [, array2 [,...]]</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_idN105ED" xml-lang="en-US"><emph>array list</emph> - A comma delimited list of arrays to be erased.</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="bascode" id="bas_id551588866531991" localize="false">Sub Erase_Example</paragraph>
<paragraph role="bascode" id="bas_id941588866552486" localize="false"> a = Array(1,2,3) : b= Array("z","y","x") : c=Array(a,b)</paragraph>
<paragraph role="bascode" id="bas_id821588866562452" xml-lang="en-US"> Erase a, c(Ubound(c)) ' b and c(0) are unchanged</paragraph>
<paragraph role="bascode" id="bas_id701588866563382" xml-lang="en-US"> Erase b, c(0) ' everything gets cleared</paragraph>
<paragraph role="bascode" id="bas_id691588866563757" localize="false">End Sub</paragraph>
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<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id161588865796615"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03102100.xhp" name="Dim statement">Dim</link> or <link href="text/sbasic/shared/03102101.xhp" name="ReDim statement">ReDim</link> statements</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id281588865818334"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03104200.xhp" name="Array function">Array</link> or <link href="text/sbasic/shared/03104300.xhp" name="DimArray function">DimArray</link> functions</paragraph>
<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id761588867124078"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03102900.xhp" name="lower bound function">Lbound</link> and <link href="text/sbasic/shared/03103000.xhp" name="upper bound function">Ubound</link> functions</paragraph>
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