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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> 45*c5015205Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153092" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U"><emph>Number</emph>: Number of spaces to be inserted by the <emph>Spc</emph> function.</paragraph> 46*c5015205Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145364" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U"><emph>Pos</emph>: Spaces are inserted until the specified position.</paragraph> 47*c5015205Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154319" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">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> 48*c5015205Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145272" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">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> 49*c5015205Smseidel<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3154011" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">If the expression to be printed exceeds a certain length, the display will automatically wrap to the next line.</paragraph> 50*c5015205Smseidel<paragraph role="note" id="par_id3146969" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">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> 51*c5015205Smseidel<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3146912" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U">Example:</paragraph> 52*c5015205Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153711" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Sub ExamplePrint</paragraph> 53*c5015205Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153764" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Print "ABC"</paragraph> 54*c5015205Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3155764" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">Print "ABC","123"</paragraph> 55cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="code" id="par_id5484176" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">i = FreeFile()</paragraph> 56cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="code" id="par_id2904141" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Open <switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="WIN">"C:\Temp.txt" 57cdf0e10cSrcweir</caseinline><defaultinline>"~/temp.txt"</defaultinline></switchinline> For Output As i</paragraph> 58cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="code" id="par_id36317" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Print #i, "ABC"</paragraph> 59cdf0e10cSrcweir<paragraph role="code" id="par_id7381817" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Close #i</paragraph> 60*c5015205Smseidel<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3147339" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U">end Sub</paragraph> 61cdf0e10cSrcweir</body> 62cdf0e10cSrcweir</helpdocument> 63