Manuals/calci/CHOOSE

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CHOOSE(indexnum, val1, val2, .....)

where,

  •   the relative position of value to be selected
  •   are value arguments or cell references to the values

CHOOSE() selects a value from list of arguments with respect to the specified index position.

Description

CHOOSE(indexnum, val1, val2, .....)

e.g. CHOOSE(2,10,20,30) displays 20 as a result.

  • CHOOSE() selects the value from the list of values depending on the specified  . e.g. If   is 2, Calci displays  .
  • If   is not an integer, Calci displays #NULL error message.
  • If   <1 or   > number of values in the list, Calci displays #N/A error message.
  • Arguments   can be numbers, text, cell references, formulas, functions etc.

Examples

Red 23
Blue 12
Yellow 3
Green -1
Orange 4
=CHOOSE(5,A1,A2,A3,A4,A5) : Finds the value with index number '5' in the cell range A1 to A5. Displays Orange.
=CHOOSE(2,A1,A2,A3,A4,A5) : Finds the value with index number '2' in the cell range A1 to A5. Displays Blue.
=CHOOSE(4,B1,B2,B3,B4,B5) : Finds the value with index number '4' in the cell range B1 to B5. Displays -1.
=CHOOSE(10,B1,B2,B3,B4) : Specified index number '10' is greater than the cell range, hence Calci displays #N/A error message.

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