DELETE Remove Lines from Program

Format

DELETE [start_stmtref][,[end_stmtref]]

Where:

end_stmtref	Last program statement to be deleted. Line label or number.
start_stmtref	Starting program statement to be deleted. Line label or number.

Description

Use the DELETE directive to delete a range of statements from the current program.

Example:

delete SECT1,450 deletes from statement label SECT1: to line 0450 inclusive.

If you only include a starting statement reference, only that statement is deleted:

delete 510 ! Deletes statement 0510
510 ! Is the same as delete 510

If you include both a starting reference and a comma, all statements from the reference to the end of the program are deleted. If you include a comma and an ending reference, statements from the start of the program up to and including the ending reference are deleted:

delete 260, ! Deletes statements from line 0260 to program end
delete ,890 ! Deletes from program start, up to and including line number 0890

If you omit statement references, the complete program is deleted from memory.

Example

->list
rem "TEST"
     print "TEST"
     stop
->delete
->list

No program is in memory, so PxPlus does not return a listing and will report errors if you try to EDIT or SAVE.