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I am reshaping my data so each date becomes a column. I will not know how many
dates are in my dataset and thus will not know how many columns I have. I'd like
to loop across the columns performing an operation once for each date.
Jason Rachlin wrote:
> program then loops over these dates performing a function. I'd like to loop
> until I hit the last date in my dataset which will change each time I run the
> program depending on the size of the dataset. Can someone please recommend an
> efficient way to identify my last column so I can define NumDays?
>
> local NumDays = ?
> local i = 1
> while `i' <= NumDays {
> ...
> }
>
> cheers!
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