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st: RE: RE: Re: How to speed up loop


From   "Scott Merryman" <[email protected]>
To   <[email protected]>
Subject   st: RE: RE: Re: How to speed up loop
Date   Fri, 17 Sep 2004 06:21:39 -0500

Nick,

Could you please explain how this -gen mage = age[mlineno]- works or where I
could find it. I realize that square brackets are used for explicit
subscripting, but is not clear to me how this working.

Thank you,
Scott


> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:owner-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Nick Cox
> Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 11:43 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: st: RE: Re: How to speed up loop
> 
> Looks like
> 
> by hhid : gen mage = age[mlineno]
> 


<snip>

> > hhid    lineno       age   mlineno      mage
> >    1         1        32         .         .
> >    1         2        30         .         .
> >    1         3         5         2        30
> >    2         1        68         .         .
> >    2         2        41         1        68
> >    2         3        40         .         .
> >    2         4        17         3        40
> >    2         5        14         3        40
> >

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