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If not, see 28 * <http://www.openoffice.org/license.html> 29 * for a copy of the LGPLv3 License. 30 * 31 ************************************************************************ 32 --> 33 34 35 <helpdocument version="1.0"> 36<meta> 37<topic id="textsbasicshared03010103xml" indexer="include" status="PUBLISH"> 38<title id="tit" xml-lang="en-US">Print Statement [Runtime]</title> 39<filename>/text/sbasic/shared/03010103.xhp</filename> 40</topic> 41</meta> 42<body> 43<section id="print"> 44<bookmark xml-lang="en-US" branch="index" id="bm_id3147230"><bookmark_value>Print statement</bookmark_value> 45</bookmark> 46<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3147230" xml-lang="en-US" level="1" l10n="U" oldref="1"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03010103.xhp" name="Print Statement [Runtime]">Print Statement [Runtime]</link></paragraph> 47<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3156281" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="2">Outputs the specified strings or numeric expressions to a dialog or to a file.</paragraph> 48</section> 49<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3145785" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="3">Syntax:</paragraph> 50<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153188" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="CHG" oldref="4">Print [#FileName,] Expression1[{;|,} [Spc(Number As Integer);] [Tab(pos As Integer);] [Expression2[...]] </paragraph> 51<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3147348" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="5">Parameter:</paragraph> 52<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id2508621" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW"> 53<emph>FileName:</emph> Any numeric expression that contains the file number that was set by the Open statement for the respective file.<comment>ufi: copied this para from Write statement, see i61758</comment></paragraph> 54<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3163712" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="6"> 55<emph>Expression</emph>: Any numeric or string expression to be printed. 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> 56<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3153092" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="7"> 57<emph>Number</emph>: Number of spaces to be inserted by the <emph>Spc</emph> function.</paragraph> 58<paragraph role="paragraph" id="par_id3145364" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="8"> 59<emph>Pos</emph>: Spaces are inserted until the specified position.</paragraph> 60<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> 61<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> 62<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> 63<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> 64<paragraph role="heading" id="hd_id3146912" xml-lang="en-US" level="2" l10n="U" oldref="13">Example:</paragraph> 65<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153711" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="14">Sub ExamplePrint</paragraph> 66<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3153764" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="15">Print "ABC"</paragraph> 67<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3155764" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="16">Print "ABC","123"</paragraph> 68<paragraph role="code" id="par_id5484176" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">i = FreeFile()</paragraph> 69<paragraph role="code" id="par_id2904141" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Open <switchinline select="sys"><caseinline select="WIN">"C:\Temp.txt" 70</caseinline><defaultinline>"~/temp.txt"</defaultinline></switchinline> For Output As i</paragraph> 71<paragraph role="code" id="par_id36317" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Print #i, "ABC"</paragraph> 72<paragraph role="code" id="par_id7381817" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="NEW">Close #i</paragraph> 73<paragraph role="code" id="par_id3147339" xml-lang="en-US" l10n="U" oldref="17">end Sub</paragraph> 74</body> 75</helpdocument> 76