SIMSCRIPT II.5 Programming Language

SIMSCRIPT II.5 Programming Language
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end '' REPORT SECTION
stop
end
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3.7.1 Page Heading Control
Two further variables, maintained for each output unit, allow page heading control to be exercised
throughout a program, rather than just within report sections. One of these variables, heading.v,
is an example of the use of a subprogram variable. If the name of a user-written page titling routine
is assigned to the heading.v variable for any unit, control will be automatically passed to this
routine as every new page is begun. This is done by statements such as:
use 2 for output
let heading.v = 'TITLE.ROUTINE'
A routine of the name TITLE.ROUTINE must, of course, be included in the program. This routine
may contain any desired print or write statements. Routine names may be assigned to
heading.v at any time. Different units may each have their own titling routines. Titling may be
suppressed by assigning a value of zero to the appropriate heading.v variable. A second
variable, also maintained for each output unit, is pagecol.v. If this has a nonzero value, for any
unit, it is taken to specify the starting column on the first line of each page where the value of the
current page count, page.v, is to be printed in the format PAGE ****.
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