Re: Show doesn't work inside Do loop ?
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- Subject: [mg101931] Re: Show doesn't work inside Do loop ?
- From: pfalloon <pfalloon at gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:56:25 -0400 (EDT)
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On Jul 22, 8:19 pm, "ibmich... at hotmail.com" <ibmich... at hotmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is there a way to use Show inside a Do loop? For example, the
> following doesn't work:
>
> Do[
> Print["i =",i];
> Fig = Plot[Sin[i*x], {x, -5, 5}];
> Show[Fig]
> , {i, 1, 5}]
>
> I would like to print different info at each step of the loop,
> therefore saving all Fig in a Table or Array doesn't help me.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michuco
You could use Print[Fig] instead of Show[Fig].
The Show function is used combine or modify graphics objects, but it
still just returns a graphics object. Thus it doesn't do what you want
from inside the Do loop.
Cheers,
Peter.