Re: foreach loop
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- Subject: [mg51962] Re: foreach loop
- From: Peter Pein <petsie at arcor.de>
- Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2004 02:19:54 -0500 (EST)
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symbio wrote:
> Is there a foreach loop statement in Mathematica? I need to loop through a
> list of words, rather than numbers. I need the equivalent of Do[expr,
> {n,0,10,1}], except I need to step through a list like so: foreach loop
> [expr, {fall, winter, spring, summer}]. Can anyone help?
>
I would try:
words = ToString /@ {fall, winter, spring, summer};
Module[{test, w = words}, While[w != {},
test = First[w]; w = Rest[w];
Print[StringJoin[Reverse[Characters[test]]]]; ]]
where the Module[] protects global variables with names "test" and "w".
P.S.: again, spring is most amusing :-)
--
Peter Pein
Berlin