Tandy 1000 Basic Reference Manual page 272

Chapter 10 I
BASIC Keywords
PRINT
Statement
PRINT data[,data,
...I
Prints numeric or string
data
on the display. You can substitute
a question mark
(?)
in place of the word PRINT.
Data
is any numeric or string constant or variable. If you omit
datu, BASIC prints a blank line. If you specify more that 1 data
item in the statement, separate them by commas, semicolons, or
spaces.
If you use commas, the cursor automatically advances to the
next tab position before printing the next item. (BASIC divides
each line into print zones containing 14 positions each, at col-
umns 14, 28, 42, 56, and 70.)
If you use semicolons or spaces to separate the data items,
PRINT prints the items without any spaces between them.
BASIC begins the next PRINT item where the last one stopped.
If no trailing punctuation is at the end of the PRINT statement,
the cursor drops to the beginning of the next line.
If BASIC tries to print a string longer than it can
fit
on the cur-
rent line, it moves to the next line and prints the string.
Single precision numbers with 7 or fewer digits that can be accu-
rately represented are printed in regular format rather than ex-
ponential format. For example, 1E-7 is printed as .0000001; 1E-8
is printed as 1E-08.
Double precision numbers with 16 or fewer digits that can be ac-
curately represented are printed in regular format rather than
e x p o n e n t i a l f o r m a t . For e x a m p l e , 1 D - 1 5 i s p r i n t e d a s
.000000000000001; 1D-16 is printed as 1D-16.
BASIC prints all numbers with a trailing blank and prints posi-
tive numbers with a leading blank. Negative numbers are pre-
ceded by a minus sign.
String constants must be enclosed in quotation marks.
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