AREAD instruction

The AREAD instruction assigns an arbitrary character string value to a SETC symbol.

The AREAD instruction has two formats. The first format lets you assign to a SETC symbol the character string value of a statement that is placed immediately after a macro instruction.

The AREAD instruction can only be used inside macro definitions.


Assign character string value

>>-SETC_symbol--AREAD--+---------+-----------------------------><
                       +-NOPRINT-+   
                       '-NOSTMT--'

The second format of the AREAD instruction assigns to a SETC symbol a character string containing the local time.


Assign local time

>>-SETC_symbol--AREAD--+-CLOCKB-+------------------------------><
                       '-CLOCKD-'

SETC_symbol: Is a SETC symbol. See SETC instruction.
NOSTMT: Specifies that the statement to be read by the AREAD instruction is printed in the assembly listing, but not given any statement number.
NOPRINT: specifies that the statement does not appear in the listing, and no statement number is assigned to it.
CLOCKB: Assigns an 8-character string to SETC_symbol containing the local time in hundredths of a second since midnight.
CLOCKD: Assigns an 8-character string to SETC_symbol containing the local time in the format HHMMSSTH, where HH is a value 00 - 23, MM and SS each have a value 00 - 59, and TH has a value 00 - 99.