Editing PureBasic (section)

=== Hello World example ===
The following single line of PureBasic code will create a standalone x86 executable (4.5 KiB (4,608 bytes) on Windows version) that displays a message box with the text "[["Hello, World!" program|Hello World]]".
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 MessageRequester("Message Box", "Hello World")</syntaxhighlight>

And the following variant of the same code, which instead uses an inline [[Windows API]] call with no need for declarations or other external references, will create an even smaller 2.0 KiB (2,048 bytes) standalone x86 executable for Windows.
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 MessageBox_(0, "Hello World", "Message Box", 0)</syntaxhighlight>

The following is a console version of the Hello World example.
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 OpenConsole()          ; Open a console window. 
 Print("Hello, World!")
 Delay(5000)            ; Pause for 5 seconds</syntaxhighlight>