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From: einstein@cs.mcgill.ca (Michael CHOWET)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Re: CTRL-Characters
Message-ID: <1991Mar30.081820.8305@cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: 30 Mar 91 08:18:20 GMT
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In article <1991Mar27.161213.2100@cs.mcgill.ca> storm@cs.mcgill.ca 
(Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes:

>How do I make a PASCAL program recognize CTRL characters (or ALT characters 
>for that matter).  Ie I want the following:

>     IF CH = CTRL-G then 
>          BEGIN 
>           blahblahb
>	  END;

  Actually, there are two ways to get at this. If you feel like dragging out
the list of ASCII codes, you can type:

  If CH = #07 Then DoSomething ; 

  Basically, the # symbol followed by the ASCII code. Simple enough, right?

  But if you want the actual character in there, hit the ^P. The following
character (your CTRL-char) will be accepted as a literal, ie it will be
inserted into the text without trying to process it as an editor control key.

  Hope that helps.