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Re: name a variable with number [message #87464 is a reply to message #87461]

Tue, 04 February 2014 11:45

rjp23
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On Tuesday, February 4, 2014 6:07:16 PM UTC, David Fanning wrote:
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> I think we are all confused about how hard-coding more variable names
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> can be a shortcut to doing *anything* over and over again. It seems to
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> me to be the *last* thing you would want to do. Doing things over and
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> over again are exactly what arrays and lists are good for.
>

How I use it is slightly different to the OP, maybe hence the confusion. I don't so much use it to split up data but to treat data from various sources the same way. It's pretty much the opposite of having hard-coded variable names.

e.g. It's normally when I have data in the same format from various different sources (usually different model runs) which I want to do the same thing to. Rather than have a chunk of code for each data source, to do the same thing to modelA, modelB, modelC, etc I just use execute to make thisModel=modelA within a loop and then act on each in turn.

That probably doesn't make any more sense though ;-)

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		name a variable with number By: gunvicsin11 on Tue, 04 February 2014 02:35
		Re: name a variable with number By: Mats Löfdahl on Tue, 04 February 2014 03:59
		Re: name a variable with number By: David Fanning on Tue, 04 February 2014 04:16
		Re: name a variable with number By: David Fanning on Tue, 04 February 2014 05:31
		Re: name a variable with number By: rjp23 on Tue, 04 February 2014 05:50
		Re: name a variable with number By: David Fanning on Tue, 04 February 2014 05:57
		Re: name a variable with number By: Fabzi on Tue, 04 February 2014 06:09
		Re: name a variable with number By: David Fanning on Tue, 04 February 2014 06:29
		Re: name a variable with number By: rjp23 on Tue, 04 February 2014 09:28
		Re: name a variable with number By: Fabzi on Tue, 04 February 2014 10:00
		Re: name a variable with number By: David Fanning on Tue, 04 February 2014 10:07
		Re: name a variable with number By: rjp23 on Tue, 04 February 2014 11:45
		Re: name a variable with number By: David Fanning on Tue, 04 February 2014 11:51
		Re: name a variable with number By: Mats Löfdahl on Tue, 04 February 2014 06:41

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