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The following are command-only statements:

ANALYST CONTINUE HOP NAME

AUTO COPY INFO REDO

CALLS CWARNINGS LIST RENUMBER

CHANGE EXIT(or ::) LIST SUBS RUN

COMPGO FILES MODIFY STEP

COMPILE FIND MOVE VERIFY

COMPLINK HELP XREF

A command-only statement cannot be a program line. Every other Business

BASIC\XL statement can be a command or a program line. There are also

some statements that cannot be a command. That is, they can only appear

in program lines.

The following are statements that can appear as part of a program line,

but can not be issued as a command:

ACCEPT END WHILE IF THEN ELSE OPEN FORM SUBEND

CASE END IF IMAGE OPTION SUBEXIT

CLEAR FORM ENTER IN DATASET PACKFMT SUBPROGRAM

CLOSE FORM EXIT IF INPUT PAUSE THREAD IS

COPTION EXTERNAL INTEGER READ TINPUT

DATA FLUSH INPUT INTRINSIC READ FORM WHILE

DECIMAL FNEND LENTER REAL WORKFILE IS

DEF FN FOR LINPUT REPEAT WRITE FORM

DIM GLOBAL COPTION LOOP SELECT UNTIL

ELSE GLOBAL EXTERNAL MAT INPUT SHORT DECIMAL

END LOOP GLOBAL INTRINSIC MAT READ SHORT INTEGER

END SELECT GLOBAL OPTION NEXT SHORT REAL

All other statements can be issued as a command, and can appear in a

program line.

Keywords

Keywords are the basis of statements.

A keyword can be entered in the following ways:

* All uppercase letters (for example, PRINT).

* All lowercase letters (for example, print).

A keyword cannot be entered using a combination of uppercase and

lowercase letters; for example, PrINt, or Print.

Regardless of how keywords are entered, HP Business BASIC/XL lists them

in uppercase.