How can you make the color of one single line of print text to be 2+ different colors (like when making ASCII art)

and

When nesting loops and stuff, how does QB determine which LOOP goes with which DO.

Just starting to learn programming so these are probably simple questions, sorry, but please help cause these stupid little things are nagging me. Thanx

As far as question #2. Let's say I had the loops

for X = 1 to 5
for Y = 5 to 10
next X
next Y

That really wouldn't make much sense. The loops are sorta intertwined. All languages that use loops match the innermost "loop" (in this case "next") with the innermost "do" (in this case "for"). So:

do ' line 1
do ' line 2
loop ' line 3
loop ' line 4

2 always goes with 3, and 1 always goes with 4.

- taubz

ok, thanks that helps me with that one question.

What I meant by the first question though is I want one line of text to be 2 colors like:

print "What are you doing?"

{What are} {you doing?}
^ ^ ^ ^
Magenta Light Cyan

What's wrong with:

color 5
print "What are ";
color 3
print "you doing?"

note: The semicolon is not an error, it is in fact the operator that will concatenate those two strings together and print them on the same line. It has to do with QBasic's idea of "print zones" ... read the PRINT help for more info.

Thank You
I was forgetting the semicolon
I'm very new to programming so I'm still learning alot of things.

That's Ok, I had to read the help file to find the semicolon, as it's been absolutely years since I used QBasic. So just remember, that when you're having trouble with anything, think of the most likely keyword that could help you (PRINT, in this example), and read the help thoroughly.