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Re: st: Unique identifier from a string name
From
daniel klein <[email protected]>
To
[email protected]
Subject
Re: st: Unique identifier from a string name
Date
Thu, 24 Nov 2011 20:20:00 +0100
Barry,
-merge- allows the identifier to be a string variable and I cannot see
why you would prefer a numeric variable here. But maybe I am just not
getting the problem. If so just ignore my comment.
Best
Daniel
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