Instruction Manual

Language Reference • Reference 251

Publication 1398-PM601A-EN-P — October 2000

WORDS

Print Operator Terminal

Purpose Print a message or a variable, or both, to the Operator Terminal or a serial port.

Syntax PRINT [#n] [row, column] ["message"] [, variable] [, field, precision[, F]]

n Serial port 1 or 2 is specified by n. If a port is not specified, the

output defaults to serial port 1, the Operator Terminal port.

row The row that printing begins on. The top row is 1.

column The column that printing begins on. The left hand column is 1.

message The message to be printed can be any string of characters in dou-

ble quotation marks. The message may also contain codes to con-

trol the display.

variable If variable is a G or V variable, the value of the variable is dis-

played. If variable is a B or F flag variable, “Y” is displayed if

the variable is ON, “N” is displayed if the variable is OFF

field field determines how many characters are allowed for the vari-

able including the decimal point. field does not apply when print-

ing flag variables. If the value to be printed is longer than the

specified field, the entire value will be printed, overflowing the

field length.

precision precision determines the number of places (1 to 4) after the deci-

mal point. The maximum precision that will be permitted is 4. If

field and precision are not included, the default precision is 2.

precision does not apply when printing flag variables.

F If F is used after precision, AND precision is set to 0, the variable

will be printed as a fraction if the variable contains a fractional

part. If the variable is a whole number, it will be printed as a dec-

imal number even if F is specified. If F is used with precision

from 1 to 4, the variable will be printed as a fraction unless the

fractional part can be expressed as a decimal number. For exam-

ple, 5 1/3 would be printed as 5 1/3 rather than 5.3333, but 5 1/4

would be printed as 5.25. This does not apply when printing flag

variables.