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You do not need to enter these delimiters in the expression list.</paragraph> 49<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id1002838" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Each <emph>Write</emph> statement outputs a line end symbol as last entry.</paragraph> 50<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id6618854" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Numbers with decimal delimiters are converted according to the locale settings.</paragraph> 51<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3151073" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="11">Example:</paragraph> 52<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3145252" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="12">Sub ExampleWrite</paragraph> 53<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3149958" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="13">Dim iCount As Integer</paragraph> 54<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3156284" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">Dim sValue As String</paragraph> 55<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3145645" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">iCount = Freefile</paragraph> 56<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153417" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="16">open "C:\data.txt" for OutPut as iCount</paragraph> 57<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3149401" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="17">sValue = "Hamburg"</paragraph> 58<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3156275" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="18">Write #iCount,sValue,200</paragraph> 59<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3146913" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="19">sValue = "New York"</paragraph> 60<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3155064" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="20">Write #iCount,sValue,300</paragraph> 61<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3150322" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="21">sValue = "Miami"</paragraph> 62<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3155766" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="22">Write #iCount,sValue,450</paragraph> 63<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3145643" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="23">close #iCount</paragraph> 64<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3150044" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="24">end sub</paragraph> 65</body> 66</helpdocument> 67