statement/DATA statement/DATA NAME DATA -- Declares data items ABBREVIATION d <shift> A SYNOPSIS DATA <item>[[,<item>][,<...>[,<item>]]] FUNCTION This statement is followed by a list of items to be used by READ statements. The items may be numbers or words, and are separated by commas. Words need not be inside of quote marks, unless they contain any of the following characters: space, colon, or comma. If two commas have nothing between them, the value will be READ as a zero for a number, or an empty string. The DATA statement must be part of a program, otherwise it will not be recognized. Also see the RESTORE statement, which allows your computer to reread data. INPUTS <item> - constant which will be declared as a data item RESULT Declares data items to be read by READ command. EXAMPLES DATA 100,200,FRED,"WILMA",,3,14,ABC123 NOTES None BUGS None SEE ALSO READ RESTORE