Re: st: RE: notes lost in append

[Fred Wolfe <fwolfe@arthritis-research.org>]

At 08:48 AM 5/11/2004, you wrote:
> I thank Fred and Nick for their responses to my question about appending 
> notes.
>
>  For the short-term, I would be happy to try Fred's suggestion if only I 
> could figure out how to do it.  Having checked the documentation, I can't 
> see how to retrieve the notes from a data set in order to copy them into 
> a new data set.  Are they stored in some retrievable variable?
Nick wrote that solutions were "messy" and I think he is right.

Off the top of my head, you could

preserve
use the appending set

Notes are stored as char, as in

char list
nwofunc[note1]:             generate nwofunc = wofunc *.05882353
nwostiff[note0]:            1

Using a foreach loop, extract the  note and note number to a (probably) 
global macro
restore
add or replace the note in the master set with data from the global macro

It's messy, probably difficult to program, but doable.

Fred




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