HP Business BASIC/XL Reference Manual - HP 3000 MPE/iX Computer Systems - Edition 1 (32715-90001)

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Arrays can also be explicitly redimensioned by the MAT READ and MAT INPUT
statements, or implicitly redimensioned by the MAT = statement.
REM
The REM statement specifies a remark. It is the first keyword on a
comment line. HP Business BASIC/XL ignores the rest of that line.
Syntax
REM
Examples
10 REM The rest of this line is ignored
RENAME
The RENAME statement changes the name of a file.
Syntax
RENAME fname1 TO fname2 [, lock_word ]
Parameters
fname1 Old fname of file.
fname2 New fname of file.
lock_word String expression that evaluates to the lockword for
fname1 . It is required if fname1 has a lockword. The
lockword is not added to fname2 .
Examples
10 CREATE "File1/secret", FILESIZE=1320 !File1 has a lockword "secret"
20 CREATE "File2", FILESIZE=2950 !File2 has no lockword
30 RENAME "File1" TO "First", "secret" !Lockword must be specified
40 RENAME "First" TO "Number1", !No lockword required
50 RENAME "File2" TO "Number2" !No lockword required
99 END
REPEAT
The REPEAT and UNTIL statements define a loop that repeats until the
boolean expression in the UNTIL statement is TRUE (nonzero).
Syntax
REPEAT [ stmt ] . . . UNTIL boolean_expr
Parameters
stmt Program line that is executed until boolean_expr
evaluates to TRUE. These statements constitute the loop
body. The loop body is always executed once prior to
the evaluation of boolean_expr .
boolean_expr Considered FALSE if it evaluates to zero; TRUE
otherwise.