PRINT statement

Purpose: Prints to stdout, usually the screen or printer. A question mark, ?, can be used instead of the PRINT statement.


 Syntax 1: 

 PRINT Comma,Separated,Expressions [;]

 Syntax 2: 


 ? Comma,Separated,Expressions [;]

 Parameters:

  • Comma,Separated,Expressions one or more expressions to be printed. An expression can be a literal or variable number or string, a member of an array or a user defined type, or an inlined function.
  • ; [OPTIONAL] A semi-colon at end of a PRINT expression line suppresses linefeed and causes the next PRINT statement to print on the same line as the previous PRINT statement.

Example 1: 


 PRINT "Hello ";
 PRINT "World ";
 PRINT "from BCX"

will print

 Hello World from BCX

Example 2: 


 DIM a

 FOR a = 1 TO 10
  PRINT a
 NEXT a

 PRINT "hello ";
 PRINT "world";

 FOR a = 1 TO 10
  PRINT a;
 NEXT a

Remarks: PRINT works only in console mode programs.

The WRITE statement also can be used for displaying comma delimited and quoted strings to the screen.

Please note that BCX uses the FPRINT function for printing to a file instead of the PRINT# syntax commonly used in other BASIC dialects.

PRINT to printer

To send data to a printer, BCX opens a connection to the printer using a handle to PRN, the standard printer communications device. The data then is output to the printer using a PRINT statement.

Here is a simple example of an alternative to LPRINT for sending data to the default printer.


 DIM i
 
 OPEN "PRN" FOR OUTPUT AS fp1
 
 FOR i = 1 TO 60
   PRINT fp1,"This is line number", i
 NEXT
 
 PRINT fp1, CHR$(12)   'CHR$(12) is Form Feed Character
 
 CLOSE fp1

Printing at column 80 row 25

For the answer to that eternal question, "How is it possible to PRINT to the screen at column 80 row 25 without causing the screen to scroll?" see the example below.


 GLOBAL i, j, A$

 A$ = " : The FastPrint routine is very -QUICK- at displaying text on the screen"

 CLS

 FOR i = 1 TO 24
  j = j + 1 : IF j = 6 THEN j = 1
  FastPrint(4, i, j, 0 , JOIN$(2,STR$(i),A$))
 NEXT

 FastPrint(80, 25, 3, 0 , "X")

 KEYPRESS : CLS : END

 SUB FastPrint(Row, Col, Fg, Bg, Text$)
  LOCAL hOut  AS HWND
  LOCAL Coord AS COORD
  LOCAL junk
  Coord.X = Row-1
  Coord.Y = Col-1
  hOut =  GetStdHandle(STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE)
  WriteConsoleOutputCharacter(hOut, Text$,    LEN(Text$), Coord, &junk)
  FillConsoleOutputAttribute (hOut, Fg+Bg*16, LEN(Text$), Coord, &junk)
 END SUB

BCX Console Sample Programs using PRINT function.

S22.bas PRINT "The Value Of A! = ", A!

S24.bas PRINT "PI =" & STR$(4*ATN(1))

S26.bas PRINT a$

S33.bas PRINT "A = ", a, " and B=", b

S37.bas PRINT "The Factorial Of 34 Is ";Factorial!(34)

S50.bas PRINT "C Macros in BCX. 100 cubed =",cube(100)

S54.bas PRINT "The length of Buffer$ =" , A , " bytes."

S56.bas PRINT C!, " *", A!/C!, " =", A!

S63.bas PRINT Reverse$("Hello There")

S70.bas PRINT

S72.bas PRINT ExeName$()

S74.bas PRINT COMMAND$, " ", FileDateTime$(COMMAND$)

S78.bas PRINT t$, ", ", d$, "(", s$, ")"

S80.bas PRINT h.a

S89.bas PRINT B$[C]

S91.bas PRINT "This program was launched from ",argv$[0]

S95.bas PRINT RND

S99.bas PRINT MyType[2,3,4].a

S101.bas PRINT "Windows", OsVersion(), " detected"

S119.bas PRINT CHR$(Sid);

S124.bas PRINT $pB ' Displays "ello!"

S133.bas PRINT "PI = "; ATN(1)*4.0