Austin Nichols wrote:
>
> The reason for moving the groups of variables into a separate macro
> and dealing with the groups in a separate loop is: suppose for any
> given variable v, you can identify a group of 6 related variables m_v
> (including v itself) and process all 6 inside the loop. When you
> reach the next variable in group m_v, you will repeat this process,
> making the whole thing take 6 times as long as it should. OTOH, the
> construction of a long local macro containing groups should take a
> negligible amount of time, and then the groups can be looped over one
> by one.
>
>
This is the root of my question - I want to advance the -foreach- loop
past the 6 variables. I tried -drop-ing the 6 but then the -foreach-
loop chokes.
I'm not concerned about the processing time; I want to group those 6
into a single table that is output into a report, and if I can't skip
them, I end up printing the same table 6 times.
I think the best solution may be the one suggested by Joseph Coveney,
to use a -while- loop, which lets me advance over the 6 with -gettoken-.
cheers,
Jeph
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