<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 12:25 AM, Jason Snyder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jmssnyder@ucdavis.edu">jmssnyder@ucdavis.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div>I am working with compound variables as described in the below website:</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.iges.org/grads/gadoc/script.html#while" target="_blank">http://www.iges.org/grads/gadoc/script.html#while</a></div>
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<div>Here is the script:</div>
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<div>'xdfopen uninan.ctl'<br>'set gxout shaded'<br>'set t 1'<br>'define temp=U'<br>i=1<br>count=1<br>While(i<5)<br> count=count+2<br> say count<br> 'set t 'i<br> dtx.count=U<br>
'd dtx.count'<br> i=i+1<br>endwhile<br></div>
<div>How do I display the compound variables or make calculations w/ them?</div>
<div> </div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>This is usually a confusing aspect of grads to many newcomers. The grads script language and the expression parser are separate, they do not share the same namespace. For example, when you say</div>
<div><br></div><div>dtx.count=U</div><div><br></div><div>you are mixing namespaces. U belongs to expression parser namespace while dtx.count belongs to the script namespace; this is not allowed. </div><div><br></div><div>
Arlindo</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div>Thanks,</div>
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<div>Jason</div>
</font></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Arlindo da Silva<br><a href="mailto:dasilva@alum.mit.edu">dasilva@alum.mit.edu</a><br>