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46 Console.WriteLine Type Special Purpose Invocation Console.WriteLine(arg) Parameter Method Type Description arg ByVal String A string to send to Com1. Discussion Console.WriteLine is neither a subroutine nor a function. It has more in common with ZBasic statements but it described here for ease of reference. This special purpose method is useful for outputting debugging information and other data to Com1. Note that a carriage return/new line is always output following the string. When this method is invoked, execution of the current task will not continue and no other task will be allowed to run until the string’s characters have been transferred to the system output queue. This caveat applies separately to the string specified by the parameter and to the end-of-line sequence that is also output. The Debug.Print page contains some example code that illustrates a way to mitigate the latency that results from this implementation detail. In contrast to other System Library routines that copy data to a queue, the string length is not limited to the system output queue length. Examples Console.WriteLine("Hello, world! ") Console.WriteLine("The value is " & CStr(val)) The second example uses the concatenation operator to produce a single string that is passed to the method. See Also Debug.Print, Console.Read, Console.ReadLine, Console.Write