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[Chris]

Here's a quote from the FAQ:

When are quotation marks used with commands and their parameters?
Single quotes (') and double quotes (") have no special meaning within the AutoHotkey language; they are always treated literally as if they were normal characters. However, when AutoHotkey launches a program or document, the operating system usually requires double quotes around any command-line parameter that contains spaces, such as in this example: Run, Notepad.exe "C:\My Documents\Address List.txt"

http://www.autohotkey.com/docs/FAQ.htm

[Chris]

You're right about the FAQ needing to be in the help file. Thanks.

a task like Send, {DOWN %Num%} or MouseMove, %X,Y% seems not possible.

You can do this, just make sure that each parameter is a variable (you can't include multiple parameters in a single variable reference). For example, the following should work:
Send, {DOWN %Num%} ; This is exactly as you had it and should work.
MouseMove, %X%,%Y% ; X & Y must be separate variables.

If you have a variable that contains two comma-delimited coordinates, you can use StringSplit:
CoordXY = 15,20
StringSplit, Coord, CoordXY

After running the above, Coord1 will contain the X coord and Coord2 will contain the Y coord.

[Rajat]

if i'm getting correctly what u mean to say then u want to get info from .ini file and the info in question consists of spl characters that create problem.
i once faced this trouble too, while coding a script.
what i did was used different chars in the .ini altogether and after reading it, did a stringreplace.
eg.
the .ini (or just a normal text file) has to have %comspec%
i write instead and after reading it i do a stringreplace to change it back to form.
this approach can be used for every char, even if u run out of chars or have to use them normally then also u can make combinations like @@ which are rearely used literally.

hope it helps. or did i understand ur requirement wrongly altogether?