Editing BASIC-PLUS (section)

===Standard statements===
The {{code|PRINT}} command divided the screen into regions 14 spaces wide, and the comma was used to move between these locations; {{code|PRINT 1,2,3}} would output 1, 2 and 3 in a spaced-out fashion,{{sfn|PLUS|1972|p=3-7}} while {{code|PRINT 1;2;3}} would leave a single space and produce "1 2 3".{{sfn|PLUS|1972|p=3-8}}{{efn|The space in front of the numbers was left for a possible minus sign, this was the standard in almost all BASICs}} {{code|INPUT}} allowed a prompt string to be specified, but used the semicolon to separate it rather than the comma; {{nowrap|{{code|INPUT "WHAT IS THE VALUE";A|basic}}.{{sfn|PLUS|1972|p=3-10}}}}

Strings could be delimited by single or double quotes.{{sfn|PLUS|1972|p=5-2}} In addition to the {{code|CHR}} and {{code|ASCII}} functions that converted single characters to and from string format,{{sfn|PLUS|1972|p=5-12}} BASIC-PLUS also supported Dartmouth's {{code|CHANGE}} command. {{code|CHANGE}} iterated the string and returned each character's ASCII value as a slot in a numeric array. For instance, {{code|CHANGE 'HELLO' TO X}} would return an array with the five ASCII codes, 110, 105, 114, 114, 105, in elements 1 through 5, and the number 5, the length of the string, in element 0.{{sfn|PLUS|1972|p=5-5}} One could reverse the operation as well, {{code|CHANGE X TO A$}} would read the individual numbers in the X array and convert it to a string.{{sfn|PLUS|1972|p=5-7}}