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Represent Screen Data

ACL/E provides variables representing all data on the screen, data locations, and the data that appears at a particular location. You represent the entire screen image (that is, all data on the screen) with the variable &SCREEN.

You can use substring notation with this variable if you want to represent only a portion of the screen data. For example, to represent the ten characters beginning at position 5 on the screen, you would use the following substring notation:

&SCREEN(5,10)