15.3 Printing Numbers
With the PRINT USING statement, you can specify:
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The number of digits to print, thus rounding the number
to a given place
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The decimal point location, thus vertically aligning num-
bers at the decimal point
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Special symbols, including trailing minus signs (-),
asterisk-filled number fields, floating currency symbols,
embedded commas, and E notation
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Debits and credits
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Leading zeros or leading spaces
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Blank-if-zero fields
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A special character that is to be printed as a literal
Unlike the PRINT statement, PRINT USING does not au-
tomatically print a space before and after a number. Unless
you reserve enough digit positions to contain the integer por-
tion of the number (and a minus sign, if necessary), BASIC
prints a percent sign ( % ) to signal this condition and displays
the number in PRINT format.