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Subscripted Variables

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• Subject: [mg16364] Subscripted Variables
• From: "Mitchell Kaplan" <qmak at pipeline.com>
• Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 02:16:40 -0500
• Organization: MindSpring Enterprises
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

I'd like to use subscripts to make my notation more readable.  I'm running
Windows98 and used the template to add a subscript to a variable -- such as
"x" with a subscript of "c".

Everything works fine until I try to clear the values.  Normally I use the
following statement to clear my values:
Clear["Global`*"].  This doesn't seem to work on my subscripted variables.

I then tried using them as local variables in a Block -- it didn't seem to
recognize them as valid symbols.  Once I assign one of them, I can reset it
by setting it equal to "." .  However, if I have a statement which sets all
of them to "." I get error messages regarding ones that haven't yet been
used.

This is more of an inconvenience than a crisis, but I would really
appreciate any help anyone could offer.

Thanks,

Mitchell

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