Re: st: RE: RE: Re: How to speed up loop

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

At 13:21 17/09/2004, Scott Merryman wrote:
> Could you please explain how this -gen mage = age[mlineno]- works or where I
> could find it. I realize that square brackets are used for explicit
> subscripting, but is not clear to me how this working.
For a particular record, the _value_ of the variable mlineno is 
substituted, so that f.i. when mlineno records the value of 2 (mother's 
record is the second in line) the righthandside becomes age[2], meaning the 
value of age from the second record (being the mother).


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