int e l 4.6 DESCRIPTION OF STATEMENTS Explanation of previous example: Every time a READ STATEMENT is encountered the next consecutive expression in the DATA STATEMENT is evaluated and assigned to the variable in the READ STATEMENT. DATA STATEMENTS may be placed anywhere within a program, they will NOT be executed nor will they cause an error. DATA STATEMENTS are considered to be chained together and appear to be one BIG DATA STATEMENT. If at anytime all the DATA has been read and another READ STATEMENT is executed then the program is terminated and the message ERROR: NO DATA IN LINE XX is printed to the console device. - 34 -