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Re: iterator strings as lists?

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  • Subject: [mg3523] Re: iterator strings as lists?
  • From: Harald Berndt <haraldb at nature.berkeley.edu>
  • Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 02:50:39 -0500
  • Organization: University of California Forest Prodcts Lab
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

J.P. and/or Valerie Purswell wrote:
> 
> listlimits1a = {i, 1, 5}
> >{i, 1, 5}
> 
> Table[i, listlimits1a]
> >Table::itform:
>    Argument listlimits1a at position 2
>      does not have the
> >correct form for an iterator.Table[i, listlimits1a]
> 
> Table[i, {i, 1, 5}]
> >{1,2,3,4,5,}
> 

I swear I'll make this my golden Mathematica rule: If it doesn't do 
what you want, wrap an Evaluate[] around it. I don't know why but

Table[i, Evaluate[listlimits1a]]

does what you want!

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