This is true, but the -tabcount- command mentioned
earlier does not require any such subterfuge in
advance. All the subterfuge is done on the fly.
Nick
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Christopher W. Ryan
> One not-so-stylish solution I had thought of was to use the "fake"
> student I have in the database be recorded as seeing one of every
> top-ten diagnosis. That way, a column for every top-ten code
> would be
> generated by a simple -table- command.
b. water
> How about a subsitute, something along the line of 999 or
> 99 for when a
> student has not encountered that condition.
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