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BASIC COMMANDS AND STATEMENTS
3.46 PRINT
Purpose: To display characters on the
display screen.
Format: PRINT [li st ] [;] [,]
? [list] [;] [.]
Comments: The list is a number of values -
either variables or constants -
which may be strings or
numbers.
If literal strings are to be
printed · out, they mu st be
enclosed by quotation marks
("Ii teral ").
If the li st is not given, then
PRINT will output a blank line,
which can be handy for spacing
out results as you display them
on the screen.
If yo u separate the values in the
list by commas, then each value
will start in the next tab field,
each of which comprises 16
columns.
If you separate the values by
semi -colons, then the values will
be displayed continuous ly.
PRINT will use either inte ger or
fixed point format for
outputting numbers depending
on whether they are expressible
in nine or fewer digits.
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