On a standard video terminal, the screen has 24 lines of 80 columns (132 columns on advanced terminals). The print statement can move the cursor to any of these positions using the format expression. (The upper left corner is column 1, row 1). Once the cursor has been moved, all subsequent output will be after that position. This allows a user to place output anywhere on the screen. At the end of a print statement, the cursor is moved to the first column of the next line.
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