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show(floattostr(sub(4.7,2.1)))

String

@ (function)

Returns a selection within the current data page for text emulations.

The@ character can be the beginning of a data selection, a page call or a procedure or function call.

Syntax

@( line, startcolumn, endcolumn ) string value

Arguments

line

Integer value specifying the line on which to read the data in the current data page.

startcolumn, endcolumn

Integer values specifying the start/end columns of the chunk of data to read from the current data page.

Code Sample Example

The first line of code assigns data from the current data page to a variable. The second line of code checks for the presence of

a value inside the data page and sets a Boolean variable according to the results.

define(&invnum,string,@(7,50,59))

define(&isfirstpage,boolean,(strtoint(@(1,60,70))=1))

C128 (function)

This function is deprecated and should be replaced by ShowBarcodeCode128 (procedure) whenever encountered. It

is kept for backwards compability.

Converts a two-character string to Code 128 bar code, character set C data.

Syntax

c128( string ) string value

Argument

string

String value composed of two characters.

Code Sample Example

This example converts the data on line 5, columns 12 to 13, to Code 128 bar code C character set data.