Remote Processing CAMBASIC - Manual (Page 9)

Concepts - 3
Reserved Words
CAM BASIC compr ises a set of statements, com mands and function names which are treated as reser ved words and cannot
be used at the beginning of variab le names. These are sometimes r eferred to as keywords.
Character Set
The CA MBASIC character set includes all characters which are legal in CAM BASIC comm ands, statements, functions and
variables. The set comp rises alphabetic, numeric a nd special character s.
Alphabetic characters are automatically converted to upper case unless they are part of a string and enclosed in quotation
marks, or are part of a rem ark. Numer ic digits are 0 through 9.
Any cha racter , w hether pr intable or n ot, m ay be used in a string. The follow ing chara cters hav e special significa nce in
C A M B A SI C :
Space or Blank
= Equals sign or assignment symbol
+ Plus sign for addition or string concatenation
– Minus sign for subtraction
*
Asterisk or multiplication symbol
/ Slash or division symbol
$ Caret, Control Key, or exponent
( Left par enthesis
) Right par enthesis
[ Left bracket
] Right bracket
% Percent or P RINT U SING overflow indicator
# Binary number prefix or logical unit declaration
$ Dollar sign or string declaration
, Comm a and print separation symbol
. Period or decim al point
; Semicolon or carriage r eturn suppressor
: Colon or program line statement delimiter
< Less than
> Greater than and system prom pt
& Amp ersand o r hexad ecimal nu mber prefix
@ Binary num ber pr efix
< BKSP> Backspace and erase the previous character
< E S C > Escape input mode or halt execution
\ Back slash and integer divider
< $ C > Control C to break an IN PUT statement
< $ S> Control S is XON code
< $ Q> Control Q is XOF F code
. . Two p eriods or label pref ix
< ENTER> Carriage return
< S P C > Space
' Apostrophe or remark