Commodore PET User Manual page 157

Prints HELLO MARY
Prints HELLO MARY
Strings
Strings may be printed by assigning the string to a string variable or enclos-
ing the string within quotation marks. For example.
A$="HELLO MARY"
PRINT A$
PRINT "HELLO MARY"
Further. if Vou print a string within quotation marks. vou may leave off the final set
of quotation marks if the PRINT statement is the last statement on a line. For ex-
ample.
PRINT "HELLO MARY
PRINT Formats
Prints HELLO MARY
First data item. The first data item to be printed in a program is printed at the cur-
rent cursor position. The PRINT format character (comma or semicolonl follow-
ing the first data item specifies the format in which the next data item is to be
printed. The next data item may be in the same PRINT statement or in a sepa-
rate PRINT statement.
New Une. When no PRINT format character (comma or semicolon) follows a data
item. a RETURN is forced following printing of the data item.
Tabbed. A comma following a data item causes the next data item to be printed
at the next tab column. Tabs are at locations 1.21.31. and 41 of a line. (A com-
ma may precede the first item to tab before printing.)
Continuous. A semicolon following a data item causes the next item to be printed
at the next available location on the line. For numeric data. this is the second
position to the right of the previous data item to allow room for a "skip"
character between numbers. For string data. items are printed continuously
with no spa ces or skips in between. The semicolon is optional to specify con-
tinuous line printing of character data.
PRINT may be executed in immediate or program mode.
Examples:
10 PRINT A
20 ?A.B.C$
?"MOOPOO";MM$
PRINT Cl$;C2$;
PRINT A+B
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