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Re: enumerating list items

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  • Subject: [mg56021] Re: enumerating list items
  • From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at earthlink.net>
  • Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 01:11:09 -0400 (EDT)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

On 4/12/05 at 5:26 AM, merser at image.dk (Søren Merser) wrote:

>is there a way to make each item in the list 'assignable', i.e. i
>want to enumerate the items like id=1, gender=2 etc.

>a={"id", "gender", "status", "odag"}

>b=Range@Length@a

>a=b

Yes.

a = {"id", "gender", "status", "odag"}; 
Evaluate[ToExpression /@ a] = Range@Length@a; 
{id, gender, status, odag}

{1, 2, 3, 4}
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