Sharp MZ-700 Series Owner's Manual page 40

P R I N T " B D D D D D A "
Clears the screen, then displays the character " A " at the begin-
ning of the sixth line f r o m the top.
N o t e : The vertical bars I...I in the format description indicate that any one of the enclosed items may
be selected.
T o enter the special characters f o r cursor control, press the | GRAPHl key; this places BASIC in the
graphic character input mode and changes the f o r m of the cursor to " 1 1 " . Next, enter the characters
as follows.
E)
•
Press the
Press the
Press the
Press the
Press the
CLR key.
HOME 1 key.
key.
key.
key.
Press the • key.
A f t e r entering a special character, press the I ALPHA |key to return f r o m the graphic character input
m o d e to the alphanumeric input mode.
2. 3. 5. 2 PRINT USING (abbreviated f o r m a t : ?USI.)
PRINT USING " f o r m a t string"; variable <
Format
Function
variable . . . >
This statement displays data on the screen in a specific format. The f o r m a t specifi-
cation consists of a character or string of characters in quotation marks, and is
specified immediately after the word USING as follows.
(1) F o r m a t specification strings f o r numeric values
(a) #
The n u m b e r sign is used to specify the maximum n u m b e r of digits to be
displayed. If the number of digits in the n u m b e r displayed is smaller than
the n u m b e r of # signs specified in " f o r m a t string", numbers are right-
justified in the field defined by that string.
(Example:)
10 A = 123
20 PRINT USING " # # # # " ; A
RUN J
123
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