BASIC Reserved Words

This appendix lists reserved words in the BASIC language. We recommend that you not use them as variable names in your programs.

ABORT

ABORTE

ABORTM

ABS

ABSS

ACOS

ADDS

ALL

ALPHA

AND

ANDS

ARG.

ASCII

ASIN

ASSIGN

ASSIGNED

ATAN

AUTHORIZATION

BCONVERT

BEFORE

BEGIN

BITAND

BITNOT

BITOR

BITRESET

BITSET

BITTEST

BITXOR

BREAK

BSCAN

BY

CALL

CALLING

CAPTURING

CASE

CAT

CATS

CHAIN

CHANGE

CHAR

CHARS

CHECKSUM

CLEAR

CLEARCOMMON

CLEARDATA

CLEARFILE

CLEARINPUT

CLEARPROMPTS

CLEARSELECT

CLOSE

CLOSESEQ

COL1

COL2

COM

COMMIT

COMMON

COMPARE

CONTINUE

CONVERT

COS

COSH

COUNT

COUNTS

CREATE

CRC32

CRT

DATA

DATE

DCOUNT

DEBUG

DECLARE

DEFFUN

DEL

DELETE

DELETELIST

DELETEU

DIAGNOSTICS

DIM

DIMENSION

DISPLAY

DIV

DIVS

DO

DOWNCASE

DQUOTE

DTX

EBCDIC

ECHO

ELSE

END

ENTER

EOF

EQ

EQS

EQU

EQUATE

EREPLACE

ERRMSG

ERROR

EXCHANGE

EXEC

EXECUTE

EXIT

EXP

EXTRACT

FADD

FDIV

FFIX

FFLT

FIELD

FIELDS

FIELDSTORE

FILEINFO

FILELOCK

FILEUNLOCK

FIND

FINDSTR

FIX

FLUSH

FMT

FMTS

FMUL

FOLD

FOOTING

FOR

FORMLIST

FROM

FSUB

FUNCTION

GARBAGECOLLECT

GCI

GE

GES

GET

GETLIST

GETREM

GETX

GO

GOSUB

GOTO

GROUP

GROUPSTORE

GT

GTS

HEADING

HEADINGE

HEADINGN

HUSH

ICHECK

ICONV

ICONVS

IF

IFS

ILPROMPT

IN

INCLUDE

INDEX

INDEXS

INDICES

INMAT

INPUT

INPUTCLEAR

INPUTDISP

INPUTERR

INPUTIF

INPUTNULL

INPUTTRAP

INS

INSERT

INT

ISNULL

ISNULLS

ISOLATION

ITYPE

KEY

KEYEDIT

KEYEXIT

KEYIN

KEYTRAP

LE

LEFT

LEN

LENS

LES

LET

LEVEL

LIT

LITERALLY

LN

LOCATE

LOCK

LOCKED

LOOP

LOWER

LPTR

LT

LTS

MAT

MATBUILD

MATCH

MATCHES

MATCHFIELD

MATPARSE

MATREAD

MATREADL

MATREADU

MATWRITE

MATWRITEU

MAXIMUM

MESSAGE

MINIMUM

MOD

MODS

MTU

MULS

NAP

NE

NEG

NEGS

NES

NEXT

NOBUF

NO.ISOLATION

NOT

NOTS

NULL

NUM

NUMS

OCONV

OCONVS

OFF

ON

OPEN

OPENCHECK

OPENDEV

OPENPATH

OPENSEQ

OR

ORS

OUT

PAGE

PASSLIST

PCDRIVER

PERFORM

PRECISION

PRINT

PRINTER

PRINTERIO

PRINTERR

PROCREAD

PROCWRITE

PROG

PROGRAM

PROMPT

PWR

QUOTE

RAISE

RANDOMIZE

READ

READ.COMMITTED

READ.UNCOMMITTED

READBLK

READL

READLIST

READNEXT

READSEQ

READT

READU

READV

READVL

READVU

REAL

RECIO

RECORDLOCKED

RECORDLOCKL

RECORDLOCKU

RELEASE

REM

REMOVE

REPEAT

REPEATABLE.READ

REPLACE

RESET

RETURN

RETURNING

REUSE

REVREMOVE

REWIND

RIGHT

RND

ROLLBACK

RPC.CALL

RPC.CONNECT

RPC.DISCONNECT

RQM

RTNLIST

SADD

SCMP

SDIV

SEEK

SELECT

SELECTE

SELECTINDEX

SELECTN

SELECTV

SEND

SENTENCE

SEQ

SEQS

SEQSUM

SERIALIZABLE

SET

SETREM

SETTING

SIN

SINH

SLEEP

SMUL

SOUNDEX

SPACE

SPACES

SPLICE

SQLALLOCONNECT

SQLALLOCENV

SQLALLOCSTMT

SQLBINDCOL

SQLCANCEL

SQLCOLATTRI- BUTES

SQLCONNECT

SQLDESCRIBECOL

SQLDISCONNECT

SQLERROR

SQLEXECDIRECT

SQLEXECUTE

SQLFETCH

SQLFREECONNECT

SQLFREEENV

SQLFREESTMT

SQLGETCURSORNAME

SQLNUMRESULTCOLS

SQLPREPARE

SQLROWCOUNT

SQLSETCONNECT-OPTION

SQLSETCURSORNAME

SQLSETPARAM

SQRT

SQUOTE

SSELECT

SSELECTN

SSELECTV

SSUB

START

STATUS

STEP

STOP

STOPE

STOPM

STORAGE

STR

STRS

SUB

SUBR

SUBROUTINE

SUBS

SUBSTRINGS

SUM

SUMMATION

SYSTEM

TABSTOP

TAN

TANH

TERMINFO

THEN

TIME

TIMEDATE

TIMEOUT

TO

TPARM

TPRINT

TRANS

TRANSACTION

TRIM

TRIMB

TRIMBS

TRIMF

TRIMFS

TRIMS

TTYCTL

TTYGET

TTYSET

UNASSIGNED

UNIT

UNLOCK

UNTIL

UPCASE

USING

WEOF

WEOFSEQ

WEOFSEQF

WHILE

WORDSIZE

WORKWRITE

WRITEBLK

WRITELIST

WRITESEQ

WRITESEQF

WRITET

WRITEU

WRITEV

WRITEVU

XLATE

XTD