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On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 09:21:35 -0700, "Ken Halter"
<Ken_Halter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Yeah... knew that <g>... just wondering why? Use VB's line continuation
>character

Isn't there a limit to the number of consecutive line-continuation
characters? Never understood why Microsoft imposed a limit at all.
Presumably the compiler just sees the character and whacks everything
it got so far into the same line, so why it must stop doing this at a
predefined limit beats me!

MM
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