1*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 2*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski 3*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski 4*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski 5*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<!--*********************************************************** 6*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * 7*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one 8*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file 9*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * distributed with this work for additional information 10*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file 11*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the 12*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance 13*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski * with the License. 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Multiple expressions can be separated by a semicolon. If separated by a comma, the expressions are indented to the next tab stop. The tab stops cannot be adjusted.</paragraph> 50*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153092" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="7"> 51*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<emph>Number</emph>: Number of spaces to be inserted by the <emph>Spc</emph> function.</paragraph> 52*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145364" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8"> 53*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<emph>Pos</emph>: Spaces are inserted until the specified position.</paragraph> 54*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154319" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="9">If a semicolon or comma appears after the last expression to be printed, $[officename] Basic stores the text in an internal buffer and continues program execution without printing. When another Print statement without a semicolon or comma at the end is encountered, all text to be printed is printed at once.</paragraph> 55*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145272" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="10">Positive numeric expressions are printed with a leading space. Negative expressions are printed with a leading minus sign. If a certain range is exceeded for floating-point values, the respective numeric expression is printed in exponential notation.</paragraph> 56*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154011" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="11">If the expression to be printed exceeds a certain length, the display will automatically wrap to the next line.</paragraph> 57*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="note" id="par_id3146969" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">You can insert the Tab function, enclosed by semicolons, between arguments to indent the output to a specific position, or you can use the <emph>Spc</emph> function to insert a specified number of spaces.</paragraph> 58*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3146912" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="13">Example:</paragraph> 59*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153711" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">Sub ExamplePrint</paragraph> 60*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153764" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">Print "ABC"</paragraph> 61*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3155764" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="16">Print "ABC","123"</paragraph> 62*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id5484176" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">i = FreeFile()</paragraph> 63*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id2904141" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Open <switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="WIN">"C:\Temp.txt" 64*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</caseinline><defaultinline>"~/temp.txt"</defaultinline></switchinline> For Output As i</paragraph> 65*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id36317" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Print #i, "ABC"</paragraph> 66*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id7381817" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Close #i</paragraph> 67*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3147339" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="17">end Sub</paragraph> 68*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</body> 69*b1cdbd2cSJim Jagielski</helpdocument> 70