Re: st: RE: RE: looping through vectors

[Ernest Berkhout <ernestb@seo.fee.uva.nl>]

Patrick,

I think you're doing exactly the opposite of what you intended to do in the 
3rd statement. You are copying the old values into the new ones (you 
replace `new' with 'old')



At 13:12 28-5-2003, Patrick wrote:

> Nick
>
> thanks for your help. I'm running your second option for irregular suffixes
> and, although I don't seem to be getting error messages, it isn't working.
> The first vector comprises variables:
>
> rpy204 rpy203 rpy199 rpy206 rpy210 rpy202 rpy014 rpy207 rpy209 rpy013 rpy201
> rpy200 rpy018 rpy016 rpy017
>
> the second vector comprises:
>
> _rpy204 _rpy203 _rpy199 _rpy206_rpy210 _rpy202 _rpy014 _rpy207 _rpy209
> _rpy013 _rpy201 _rpy200 _rpy018 _ rpy016 _rpy017
>
> I have written the following code which produces the output as shown (note
> that I'm also including an if command as I only want to copy over values
> conditional on the value of additional variable). The values of the
> variables in the first vector (or set) remain uncyhanged when I tab them.
> Any ideas?
>
> Patrick
>
> . foreach v of var rpy* {
> 2.         local new : subinstr local   v       "rpy"   "_rpy"
> 3.         replace `new' = `v'
> 4. } if show3 == 1
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