Controlling the Flow of Statements

Visual Basic provides many ways for you to control the flow of statements in procedures. You can call other procedures, loop through a set of statements either a calculated number of times or based on a condition, or test values and conditionally execute sets of statements based on the result of the condition test. You can also go directly to a set of statements or exit a procedure at any time. The following sections demonstrate some (but not all) of the ways you can control flow in your procedures.

Call Statement

Use a Call statement to transfer control to a subroutine.

Syntax

Call subroutinename [(<arguments>)]

or

subroutinename [<arguments>]

where <arguments> is

{[ByVal | ByRef] <expression> },...

Notes

The Call keyword ...

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