Writes to standard output.
Syntax
The syntax of the PRINT
statement can take one of two forms:
Formatted and list-directed syntax:
PRINT format [, output-list ] |
Namelist-directed syntax:
- format
is one of the following:
An asterisk (*),
specifying list-directed I/O.
The label of a FORMAT
statement containing the format specification.
An integer variable that has been assigned the label
of a FORMAT statement.
An embedded format specification.
- name
is the name of a namelist group, as previously defined
by a NAMELIST
statement . Using the namelist-directed syntax, the PRINT
statement sends data in the namelist group to standard output. To
direct output to a connected file, you must use the WRITE
statement and include the NML=
specifier.
- output-list
is a comma-separated list of data items for output.
The data items can include expressions and implied-DO
lists.
Description
The PRINT
statement transfers data from memory to standard output. (Unit 6
is preconnected to the HP-UX standard output.) The PRINT
statement can be used to perform formatted, list-directed, and namelist-directed
I/O only.
To direct output to a connected file, use the WRITE
statement.
Examples
The examples in this section illustrate different uses of
the PRINT statement.
Formatted output
The following statement writes the contents of the variables
num and des
to standard output, using the format specification in the FORMAT
statement at label 10:
List-directed output
The following statement uses list-directed formatting to print
the literal string x=
and the value of the variable x:
Embedded format specification
The following statement uses an embedded format specification
to print the same output:
PRINT "(A2, F8.2)", "x=", x |
Namelist-directed output
The following statement prints all variables in the namelist
group coord,
using namelist-directed formatting:
Related statements
FORMAT
and WRITE
Related concepts
For related information, see the following:
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