Basic Scripting

Description

With TAB, one can generate strings that consist of many spaces. Such strings are helpful when formatting output. TAB needs a single argument that is the number of spaces the string should contain.

Example

This example prints a vertical triangular curve by using TAB statements

outmode -2
do
   for s = 0 to 20
      print tab(s);
      print "*"
      sleep 100
   next
   for s = 20 to 0 step -1
      print tab(s);
      print "*"
      sleep 100
   next
loop

Remarks

Because of memory constraints, a single string in the Avisaro Scripting Language has a maximum size of 255 characters. Therefore, TAB should not be called with a greater value than 255.