Programming | Displaying text

Displaying text

Function

Display text on the screen.

Syntax

Detailed Description

The PRINT statement displays text, and moves the cursor automatically to the end of the text. Adding a semicolon to the PRINT statement suppresses the automatic carriage return normally added to the output.

Newline control

New cursor position

; (semicolon)

Move to the immediate right of the last character displayed.

print "12345";

Blank

Move to the start of the next line.

print "12345"

Note that the screen automatically scrolls if the string is on the bottom line of the screen.

Example

Display the following screen

  private dspdata$
  private quantity%
  print "Product code"
  dspdata$ = "4901234567890"  
  print dspdata$
  print "Count";
  quantity% = 10
  print quantity%