Re: st: foreach-question

[Richard Williams <Richard.A.Williams.5@ND.edu>]

At 06:04 AM 4/21/2006, Maarten buis wrote:
> There doesn't appear anything wrong with your
> �foreach- command, however a local can contain
> only a limited number of characters, and your
> list of variables probably contains too many
> characters. All extra characters are ignored,
> so apparently the maximum was reached with
> kzahl and was thus ignored. One way to prevent
> that is to replace the line
Good point.  I hadn't thought of that - and my 
simulation had no problems - but another simple 
way around that is to not use the equals sign, e.g.

local wave "l m n o p q r s t u"
local vars "netto pbleib pbbil01 pbbil02 pbbil03 
phrf famstd stell pnat nace psbil hhgr eigen kzahl"

You can get a lot more characters into a local 
macro when you avoid the equals sign.




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