**CIGAL Reference Manual, Chapter 2 (Commands): EXECUTE**
===== EXECUTE -- Execute a character string as a CIGAL command line =====
**         usage:  execute textstring**

The EXECUTE command behaves as though its character string argument,
TEXTSTRING, were typed in as the next command line, or group of command lines.
This is most useful if you want to construct a command in a character string
variable, or if you have several commands that you want to execute as a group.
The latter is possible because the EXECUTE command stores the TEXTSTRING and
breaks it into separate commands wherever it finds unquoted newline characters (\n, ASCII 10).  

For example:
       exec cmdlin                         ; execute the DOS arguments to CIGAL
                                           ; as a CIGAL command
    or:
       s1 = {                              ; load the string variable S1 with
        s2 = accept('Enter command: ')     ; 4 command lines (separated by '\n'
        time(0)                            ; within S1) to read a command line
        exec s2                            ; and time its execution
        ftype 'Time: %.2f secs\n' time(1)  ;
       }
       execute s1                          ; Now read and time a command
  
**See Also:**\\
[[jvs:cigal:manual:chapter2:alarm|ALARM(2)]], 
[[jvs:cigal:manual:chapter1:strings|STRINGS(1)]]

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