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Re: Array elements as named variables? [message #2360]

Tue, 28 June 1994 10:37

jimbrakefd
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Registered: March 1994

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In article <2un02p$lm1@lace.Colorado.EDU>, msegur@newton (The
Ethereal Knight) writes:

> Is it possible to used an element of an array as a named
variable
> in order for a procedure to store a value in it? When I try to do
this, I
> get an error telling me that the expression must be a named
variable, but
> it seems like a reasonable thing to want to do. I know that I can
use a
> dummy variable to store the value, but this seems awfully clumsy. Am
I
> missing something?

Of course one can pass the subscripted array as a text string for
EXECUTE
(.i.e. EXECUTE("A[2,5]" + "=" + "result")

Jim Brakefield

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		Re: Array elements as named variables? By: jimbrakefd on Tue, 28 June 1994 10:37
		Re: Array elements as named variables? By: schrick on Tue, 28 June 1994 11:16
		Re: Array elements as named variables? By: landers on Mon, 27 June 1994 15:11
		Re: Array elements as named variables? By: thompson on Mon, 27 June 1994 10:16

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