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CHAR Statement
Category Reference/Commodore Basic V3.5 Topic CHAR [color source#],x,y,"text string"[,reverse flag] This statement displays text characters in any location in either text or graphic mode. The color sources are 0-3 (default 1). To change the colors, see the COLOR statement. Multicolor sources can only be used when a multicolor mode is active (see GRAPHIC statement). The x coordinate is the character column (0-39). The y coordinate is the character row (0-24). The text to be printed can either be text within double quotes, or can be a string variable. The reverse flag reverses the printed text (0:off, 1:on) in graphic mode. Default is 0. The reverse flag has extra uses in multicolor mode (see below). In multicolor graphic mode, selecting color 0 displays the character in the foreground color with one of the multicolors for the surrounding background. The choice of multicolor is determined by the reverse flag. (0: multicolor 1, 1:multicolor 2) Special characters (such as FLASH or CLEAR) may be included in the string when printing to a text screen, but when printing to a graphic screen, the PETSCII character representing the special character will be printed instead. Examples `CHAR 1,17,12,"HELLO"` Prints HELLO in the centre of the screen. `CHAR ,0,0,"HELLO",1` Prints HELLO in reversed characters Abbreviation CH SHIFT+A Warning: Execution of CHAR statement does reset possible screen windows.