Xylem System 5000 BASIC Manual - Manual (Page 20)

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Used to begin the next iteration of a FOR, WHILE, REPEAT, or DO loop.
FOR var = 1 TO 10
IF (var = 5) CONTINUE REM “5” won’t be printed
PRINT “ “, var; REM prints “ 1 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10”
REM Note: the semicolon removes the default new line (\n)
REM that appears at the end of a PRINT statement
NEXT var
CONTINUE
Returns the cosine value of the given number.
var = COS(0) REM stores 1 in the var variable
PRINT COS(PI) REM prints “-1”
COS (number)
Used in conjunction with the GETVALUE command, COUNTERX requests a new counter
measurement to be made on the specified digital port and stores the value in the given variable.
Used in conjunction with the SETVALUE command, COUNTERX specifies the counter on the
specified digital port to be set to the desired number. The counter will be set to the integer value
of the number if a floating point value is passed in.
GETVALUE COUNTER3, var REM stores a new Counter measurement of digital
REM port 3 from the daughterboard in the var
REM variable
slot$ = “SLOT1”
GETVALUE COUNTER4 slot$, s$ REM stores a new Counter measurement of
REM digital port 4 from Slot 1 in the s$
REM string variable
SETVALUE COUNTER2, 86 REM sets the Counter on Digital Port 2 on the
REM daughterboard to 86
a = 23.05
SETVALUE COUNTER1 SLOT2, a+2 REM sets the Counter on Digital Port 1 on
REM Slot 1 to 25 (INT(a+2))
COUNTERX
BASIC COMMANDS & FUNCTIONS
A parameter to the DATETIME function returning a six-digit number representation of the
current date, formatted as YYMMDD.
var = DATETIME(DATE) REM stores 91231, inferring Dec 31, 2009
DATE