STATIC Statement Programming Examples STAT_EX.BAS is a program file in the subdirectory ADVR_EX that illustrates the STATIC statement. To look at the program in the View window and, optionally, to run it, load the program using the File menu's Open Program command. The program searches for every occurrence of a certain string expression in a file and replaces that string with another string. The name of the file with these changes is the old filename with the extension .NEW. The program also prints the number of substitutions and the number of lines changed.