The prgm ctl menu – Texas Instruments TI-86 User Manual

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Chapter 16: Programming

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The PRGM CTL Menu

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If

Then

Else

For

End

4

While

Repea

Menu

Lbl

Goto

4

IS>

DS<

Pause

Retur

Stop

4

DelVa

GrStl

LCust

To see examples that show how to use

PRGM

CTL

menu items in programs, refer to the A to

Z Reference.

If

condition

If condition is false (evaluates to 0), the next program command is
skipped; if condition is true (evaluates to a nonzero value), the
program continues on to the next command

Then

Following

If

, executes a group of commands if condition is true

Else

Following

If

and

Then

, executes a group of commands if condition is false

For(

variable

,

begin

,

end

ã

,

step

ä

)

Starting at begin, repeats a group of commands by an optional real step
until variable > end; default step is 1

End

Identifies the end of a group of program commands;

For(

,

While

,

Repeat

, and

Else

groups must end with

End

;

Then

groups without an

associated

Else

instruction also must end with

End

While

condition

Repeats a group of commands while condition is true; condition is
tested when the

While

instruction is encountered; typically, the

expression that defines condition is a relational test (Chapter 3)

Repeat

condition

Repeats a group of commands until condition is true; condition is

If

, While, and Repeat

instructions can be nested.

For(

loops can be nested.

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