Obscure commands, part 7
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1. Obscure commands, part 7
ekrampitzjr · Mon, 09 Dec 2002 17:59
7. ' in PRINT, INPUT, LPRINT statements
This trick is barely touched on in the Timex manual. Using the
apostrophe within a PRINT (etc.) statement moves the print position
to the beginning of the next line. No semicolons are necessary
around it. This saves using a TAB or PRINT AT x, 0 or separate PRINT
statement, and it potentially could save a lot of memory in a long
program with a lot of output. Here's an example:
5>PRINT "Line 1"'"Line 2"
"Line 1" will print at 0,0; "Line 2" will print at 1,0. Unlike TAB
the apostrophe does not print over anything else that may already
have been on line 0 in this example.