If something is missing from the latter, then it's not officially part of the language. Select Case is a substitute of writing down multiple if statements in VBA, when we have many conditions in a code we might have to use multiple If statements and which can be tedious as it becomes more complex as more of the If statements are provided, in select case statement we define the criteria as different cases and results as per them. If something is missing from the former, then it may just be an omission. The Specification should be followable to create a Visual Basic compiler. However, in the preceding 5 paragraphs (the entirety of the specification for Select Case Statements) no distinction is drawn between the two forms.ġThe Reference tries to be descriptive, give examples, and uses (at times) looser language.

So, it's clear that this section does cover both forms. Select Case statement is a conditional statement just like the if else statement.

In Version 11, under section 10.8.2, the Select Case statement is discussed, and the syntax shown is: Rather than looking at the Language Reference, the definitive place to look is in the Language Specification 1. However, my only evidence is by way of an absence of drawing any distinction.

To create a Select Case statement, type Select and press tab. Following is the syntax of defining the Select.Case statement in Visual Basic programming language. Select Case evaluates an expression and goes to the matching clause. I would say there is no difference between the two forms. Generally, in Visual Basic the Select.Case statement is a collection of multiple case statements and it will execute only one single case statement based on the matching value of the defined expression.

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