This statement is used to write integers, decimals and strings to disk. Constant1 identifies the file number that the file was opened as. This must be a constant with a value of 1, 2 or 3. The file must have been previously opened with the OPEN command. If printobject1 is a string, you can also add the optional argument "NONULL", which will cause ASIC to suppress the trailing NULL character it would normally write to disk. DOS errors are returned in the system variable "ERROR". A list of these error codes may be found in the error messages section of the ASIC Manual. Also, refer to the technical details section of the ASIC Manual for more information on the format in which ASIC writes the data to disk.

After successful execution of the print statements the file identified by file number 1 would contain "HELLO0WORLD0" . Note that the "0" following HELLO and WORLD in our example represents the ASCII null character. Strings in ASIC are always internally terminated with ASCII null characters. By default, these nulls are also written to disk.

    PRINT# 2, "HELLO" NONULL

In this example, the string "HELLO" would be written to file #2, and no trailing NULL will be written to disk.

    PRINT #3, 1234

In this example, the number "1234" would be written to file #3 as two bytes in Intel binary format (the file would contain the two hexadecimal bytes: D2 04).

Note that while ASIC doesn't generate carriage returns and line feeds for you as it does with the PRINT command, you can write these characters to disk as follows: A$=CHR$(13)
B$=CHR$(10)
A$ = A$ + B$
PRINT #1, A$

You might be wondering about the purpose of the NONULL option. ASIC normally writes trailing NULLs with strings. This is desirable if you plan to read the file exclusively with other ASIC programs.

However, sometimes you may want to write a string for use by another program. In this case, the NULL character sometimes confuses the other program. Specifying the NONULL option will cause ASIC to suppress the offending NULL character.

What happens if you read a string that is terminated by a Carriage Return/Line Feed Sequence (such as GWBASIC/BASICA produces)? In this instance, specify the CRLF option on the INPUT# statement. Then ASIC will read the string until it finds a CR/LF or until it reads 80 characters, whichever comes first.