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Labels describe the text that surrounds tables on the printed page.
Text may actually be stored in the table cells in two different ways - for printing (using %TEX function) and for table look up.
Text may be assigned to cells of a table for printing using the %TEX function.
Any amount of text may be used, but note that the text will only print on a single line. Delimiters may not appear in text for the %TEX function, nor may underline sequences or label controls.
VERY IMPORTANT: do not use CP (Compile and Print) with %TEX.
IMPORTANT: tables modified by %TEX should not be tested for a value nor should table arithmetic be performed on them.
Example of %tex:
mt #15 = %tex(0.0, 4.99, 'Too small'),
which sets all cells of table 15 which have a value between 0.0 and 4.99 to "Too small".
Text can be assigned to a cell of a table for look up by assigning the cell the value of a cvar. The cvar may be up to 8 characters long.
The text assigned is strictly a literal, not text as defined in this chapter.
Tables assigned text in this way can be tested against a literal but no table arithmetic can be performed on them, nor should they be printed (use F=NPTB).
Tables assigned text in this way must be double-precision (defined under F=DBL).
Example of table look up:
t #1(e26) = 'ABCD ',