Black Code

[DEDMOD]

Since I'm doing some serious coding today, I came up with another lightbulb experince just now. At the risk of giving others a laugh at how dense I am for not having figured it out, or read it before, here it is. I'd always wondered why parts of my code were sometimes colored black for a second or two when I typed ')' (in VFP 7). Suddenly while working on code which ended up being,

STR(ALLTRIM((INT(VAL(valofc)))))

I realized it was to let you see graphically what the extent of code covered by your parenthesis was. Just pay attention and you immediately know whether things match or not. Dave Dardinger

 

[chpicker]

I've actually found this particularly useful when keying in a date or datetime constant. Sometimes I'll accidently close it with &quot" instead of "}". VFP 7 responds by highlighting a rather large block of code. LOL

Ian