You need to sort out the other problem 
I mentioned. 
Nick 
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> Sorry,
> This is a mistake when sending the email.
> But I still have the same problem.
> The question is how to deal with the missing of
> some variables through the loop on the countries.
> 
> I see a typo here.
> 
> Your local macro -country- is not defined, i.e. empty.
> 
> You could try
> 
> foreach i of local countries {
>              ...
> }
> 
> except that your loop makes no reference to the
> particular country, so I doubt that this code will do
> what you want it to. It looks as if it will do the
> same each time around the loop.
> 
> Nick
> [email protected]
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