Background Color on Win XP - Undocumented Feature!

[Monte Goulding]

I think it is documented. At leaset I learnt it from somewhere????

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> [mailto:metacard-admin at lists.runrev.com]On Behalf Of Ken Ray
> Sent: Sunday, 15 September 2002 2:54 AM
> To: metacard at lists.runrev.com
> Subject: Re: Background Color on Win XP - Undocumented Feature!
> 
> 
> Monte,
> 
> When I looked at your code, at first I thought something was 
> wrong with the
> following line:
> 
> >         put word 1 of tColor,word 2 of tColor,word 3 of tColor 
> into tColor
> 
> I have always assumed that in order to concatenate items in a
> comma-delimited list, you needed to use &","&, as in:
> 
>    put word 1 of tColor & "," & word 2 of tColor & "," & word 3 of tColor
> into tColor
> 
> But apparently you've hit on an undocumented feature of MC - the 
> ability to
> create a comma-delimited item list in a variable without having to use an
> ampersand for concatenation.
> 
> I even tried it with strings:
> 
>   answer "Fred","Harry"
> 
> and got the following in the answer box:
> 
>   Fred,Harry
> 
> You can also put as many spaces around the comma as you like:
> 
>   answer "Fred"     ,   "Harry"
> 
> still displayed "Fred,Harry" in the answer box.
> 
> Now before you all go thinking you can do this with word and line
> delimiters, I can tell you from testing that you can't... you'll get an
> error. So the following things WON'T work:
> 
>   answer "Fred" "Harry"
>   answer "Fred"cr"Harry"
>   answer "Fred"charToNum(10)"Harry"
> 
> But still, that is a cool find! Thanks, Monte!
> 
> Ken Ray
> Sons of Thunder Software
> Email: kray at sonsothunder.com
> Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/
> 
> 
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