>Rereading my answer I think it may be misunderstood as blaming you for
>not looking at something obvious (like use -findit-). This is not the
>case, I was trying to give the answer and give an extra tip at the same
>time. These -egen- functions are full of neat tricks, so if you want to
>do something that is close to what is already implemented in an -egen-
>function, than looking at that function might yield some useful tricks.
That is exactly what I have read and learned in your answer - thanks
again. And if it would have been obvious it is also correct to give an
advice; "blaming" might not be the right term because I assume if you
answer such a mail (about something obvious) you always want the other to
pay more attention to documentation/FAQs/List archives etc. before sending
an email.
Johannes
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