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HP Business BASIC/XL Reference Manual

CPOS 

The CPOS function returns the column position of the cursor in display
memory.  For terminals that have a display 80 columns wide, a value in
the range 1..80 is returned.  A return value of 1 corresponds to the
leftmost column and a return value of 80 corresponds to the rightmost
column.  The program fragment:

        100 CURSOR (,45)  ! Position cursor to column 45
        120 PRINT CPOS    ! Prints position of the cursor in display memory

prints the number 45.  CPOS determines the cursor position by reading it
from the terminal.  Therefore, typing on the keyboard while a CPOS
statement is executing may cause an error.

Syntax 

CPOS

Examples 

     200 PRINT CPOS

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