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%% The LaTeX Companion, 3ed
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%% Example 8-5-23 on page I-644 in "Transformations and other operations".
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%% Copyright (C) 2022 Frank Mittelbach
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%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c
%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
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%% See https://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
%%

\documentclass{tlc3exa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{111.0pt}

%StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{pgffor} % or tikz
%StopShownPreambleCommands

\begin{document}
\foreach \x/\y in {apples/red, ducks/yellow, trees/green}
 { \x{} are \y{}! \par }
\end{document}