Mikroelektronika MIKROE-724 データシート

mikroBasic PRO for dsPIC30/33 and PIC24

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Whitespace is a collective name given to spaces (blanks), horizontal and vertical tabs, newline characters and comments. 

Whitespace can serve to indicate where tokens start and end, but beyond this function, any surplus whitespace is 

discarded.

For example, the two sequences

dim tmp as byte

dim j as word

and

dim  tmp  as  byte

dim    j  as  word

are lexically equivalent and parse identically.

Newline Character

Newline character (CR/LF) is not a whitespace in BASIC, and serves as a statement terminator/separator. In mikroBasic 

PRO for dsPIC30/33 and PIC24, however, you may use newline to break long statements into several lines. Parser will 

first try to get the longest possible expression (across lines if necessary), and then check for statement terminators.

Whitespace in Strings

The ASCII characters representing whitespace can occur within string literals, in which case they are protected from 

the normal parsing process (they remain as a part of the string). For example, statement

some_string = “mikro foo”

parses to four tokens, including a single string literal token:

some_string

=

“mikro foo”