HP 2000 BASIC help / TREK73

From: Zubla2001_at_aol.com <(Zubla2001_at_aol.com)>
Date: Fri Dec 5 04:27:58 2003

> What does '14 in a PRINT statement, in front of a quoted string, mean
> (eg in PRINT '14"SULU")? I wondered if it were something like PRINT
> TAB(14)"... but there are TAB()s elsewhere. A control character,
> perhaps? If cursor or screen control, are they octal or decimal (I'd
> guess decimal) and is there a table anywhere?

decimal.
The table in the back of the Access BASIC manual is excellent.
Another response to this thread (November) listed a URL.

Of interest to people pulling apart the HP as well as programmers:

My friends and I once noticed using Access functions (CHR$(7)?)
instead of the single quote ('7) actually took up more storage room.
There was a maximum line length of somewhere between 254 and 256.
Using the single quote (for control chars) allowed for much much longer lines.
So something is different in the tokenizing and it also explains why a
less readable format was used. Although you get used to it. :-)

~Zubla
Received on Fri Dec 05 2003 - 04:27:58 GMT