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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