TEXT Variable

TEXT Variable

Specifies the text or symbol to be placed on the graphics output.

Type: character

Length: up to 200

Default: blank string

Syntax

TEXT='text-string' | 'special-symbol';

text-string: specifies the text that is used as a label (LABEL or COMMENT function) or symbol (SYMBOL function). The maximum length for text-string is 200 characters.
special-symbol: specifies the name of a symbol from the special symbol table that is illustrated in Special Symbols for Plotting Data Points. The maximum length for special-symbol is eight characters.

You can use the TEXT variable with these functions:

COMMENT LABEL SYMBOL

Use a LENGTH statement to set the length of the TEXT variable if the length of a text string is longer than one character.