Juanita has given a good answer.
Another one is why use a delimiter at all?
I realise that your example is schematic
and that your real code may be much more
complicated. But even if you have very long
lines you can use /// to join one line to
another.
That leads to less fiddling around, long run.
Nick
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Riano, Juanita
> # delimit ;
> foreach v of var var1 var2 var3 {;
> do something;
> };
Thomas Speidel
> Is there a way to use the " ; " delimiter in a loop? For
> example, doing
> something on the line of:
>
> # delimit ;
> foreach v of var var1 var2 var3 {
> do something
> }
> ;
>
> Would return the error that the code "follows on the same line as open
> brace".
>
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