IMAGE specifiers have the following meanings in DISP, LABEL, OUTPUT, and PRINT statements:
Specifier
Meaning
#
Suppress automatic output of EOL following the last item.
%
Is ignored in OUTPUT images.
K
Output a number or string in default format, with a period for the radix.
-K
Means the same thing as K.
H
Output a number or string, default format, comma radix.
-H
Means the same thing as H.
Specifier
Meaning
B
Output a byte, like the CHR$ function. If the value is larger than 32767, 255 is sent. If the value is smaller than -32768, 0 is sent. If the value is in between, it is rounded to an integer and the least significant byte (CINT(value) MOD 256) is sent.
W
Output a word in 2’s complement 16-bit integer form. If the value is larger than 32767, 32767 is sent. If the value is smaller than -32768, -32768 is sent. If the interface is 16-bit, the word is output in one operation (even if the BYTE attribute was used in the I/O path). If the interface is 8-bit, the byte ordering depends on the LSB/MSB attribute of the I/O path. If the destination is a string, native byte ordering is always used (LSB FIRST on a PC, MSB FIRST on a Sun or HP Workstation). If the WORD attribute was specified in the I/O path, a pad byte will be output before the word when necessary to achieve word alignment.
Y
Means the same as W, except that word alignment is not done, and the BYTE attribute is not ignored.
+
Change the automatic output of EOL to carriage-return after the last item.
-
Change the automatic output of EOL to line-feed after the last item.
M
Output a minus sign if negative, a blank if positive.
S
Output the sign of the number (+ or -).
D
Output one numeric digit character. The leading zeros are replaced by blanks; a minus sign is displayed on negative numbers.
Z
Means the same thing as D except leading zeros are displayed.
*
Means the same thing as D except leading zeros are replaced with asterisks.
.(period)
Output a decimal-point radix indicator.
R
Output a comma radix indicator.
E
Output an ‘E’, a sign character, and a two-digit exponent.
ESZ
Output an ‘E’, a sign character, and a one-digit exponent.
ESZZ
Output an ‘E’, a sign character, and a two-digit exponent.
ESZZZ
Output an ‘E’, a sign character, and a three-digit exponent.
A
Output an alphanumeric string character.
X
Output a blank.
/
Output a carriage-return and line-feed.
L
Output the current EOL sequence. The default is CR/LF.
@
Output a form-feed character.
"string literal"
Output the characters in the string literal. Remember to double the quote marks when the IMAGE is inside a string literal.
