Vector Basic Interpreter Basic 80 Reference Manual - page 92
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PRINTi Disk To write data to a sequential disk file. is the number used when the file was OPENed for output. <"format string"> is comprised of formatting characters as described in Section 2.50, PRINT USING. The expressions in are the numeric and/or string expressions that will be written to the file. PRZNTt does not compress data on the disk. An image of the data is written to the disk, just as it would be displayed on the terminal with a PRINT statement. For this reason, care should be taken to delimit the data on the disk, so that it will be input correctly from the disk. In the list of expressions, numeric should be delimited by semicolons. expressions For example, (If commas are used as delimiters, the extra blanks that are inserted between print fields will also be written to disk.) String expressions must be separated by semicolons in the list. To format the string expressions correctly on the disk, use explicit delimiters in the list of expressions. For example, let A$="CAMERA" and 5$=-"93604-1". The statement would write CAMERA93604-1 to the disk. Because there are no delimiters, this could not be input as two separate strings. To correct the problem, insert explicit delimiters into the PRINTi statement as follows: