PRINT Statement

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PRINT Statement

The PRINT statement provides a way of displaying information to the user during the Alchemy process by writing one or more expressions (concatenated with the '+' operator) to the console. PRINT terminates the line after the data has been output.

Note
PRINT is functionally equivalent to the ? statement.

Syntax

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PRINT expr;

Alternatively (see ? Statement):

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? expr;

Nomenclature

expr

Some expression to output.

Example

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$version = "2010.4";
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PRINT "Importing USA data from MyDataProvider";
PRINT "Version number " + $version;

alternatively:

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$version = "2010.4";
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? "Importing USA data from MyDataProvider";
? "Version number " + $version;

Output to console:

Importing USA data from MyDataProvider

Version number 2010.4