Re: Assign value to variable
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- Subject: [mg111263] Re: Assign value to variable
- From: Leonid Shifrin <lshifr at gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 02:00:47 -0400 (EDT)
This will work, regardless of whether the variables already had some values
or not:
Table[ToExpression["co" <> ToString[i], InputForm,
Function[s, s = 0, HoldAll]], {i, 100}]
I would recommend using indexed variables like co[1], co[2] etc
instead of co1, co2, etc - then it is even much easier:
In[10]:= Clear[co];
In[11]:= Do[co[i] = 0, {i, 100}]
In[12]:= co /@ Range[10]
Out[12]= {0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0}
Indexed variables are generally easier to manipulate than Symbols,
particularly when
you have many of them and want to manipulate them programmatically.
Regards,
Leonid
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 1:07 PM, miguelwon <miguelwon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I'm working with some expressions that are dependent of several
> variables co1, co2, ... , con. I would like to know how can I assign
> values iteratively to some of these variables. I tried:
>
> For[i=1,i<=100,i++,
> Symbol["co"<>ToString[i]]=0;
> ];
>
> but it doesn't work. For each iteration it says coi is Protected.
> Can someone help me?
>
> Thanks
>
>