answer with...

[J. Landman Gay]

On 8/16/17 10:07 pm, jbv via use-livecode wrote:

 > I have a blank...
 > I need to use a prompt in the form of
 >    answer "Your choice" with "John" or "Mary" or "Cancel"
 >
 > the problem is that the number of options depends on the
 > result of a DB request, and can vary from 2 to 6...

I think the answer command has always accepted CR instead of "or" if I 
remember right. At any rate, if you don't want to use a field, you can 
just replace the commas with CR and use that.

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