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Re: st: adding spcial character(" ") in a string
From
daniel klein <[email protected]>
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Subject
Re: st: adding spcial character(" ") in a string
Date
Thu, 26 Jul 2012 00:33:28 +0200
Sorry for the inconvenience, I was in a hurry. When I first tried to
use option -clean- it did not work for me -- I must have made a
mistake there. So I came up with the loop, which I will not explain,
because it is neither necessary nor is it convenient. Your solution is
(much) better.
Using the same names for variables and locals is merely lack of
creativity in shortage of time.
Best
Daniel
--
you are right. It actually works but the text are all over. I actually
found another way of doing although I picked up half od Daniel's code.
I pulled away myself from using daniel's code because I couldn't
understand bottom half of his code esp the loops. And also, the
macronames identical to varnames make it follow even difficult. Anyone
willing to break down Daniel's loop will be highly appreciated. The
code I used was..
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