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Re: Assignment problem

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  • Subject: [mg86289] Re: Assignment problem
  • From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at sbcglobal.net>
  • Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 02:32:36 -0500 (EST)

On 3/6/08 at 2:58 AM, m.gabiccini at ing.unipi.it (Marco Gabiccini)
wrote:

>I would like to do something like:

>For[ i=1, i<n, i++, ToExpression[ "q" <> ToString[i] ] = 0 ]

>that is assigning q1=0, q2=0, etc... but it does not work.

This will do what you want assuming the variables don't already exist

Table[Set[Evaluate@ToExpression["q" <> ToString[n]], 0], {n, 0, 4}];
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