Thanks for the tips! As an academic trying to move lots of code over from
other languages my lack of knowledge in coding fundamentals is being
exposed a bit.
Alex
On Sunday, September 7, 2014 3:03:01 PM UTC-7, Alex wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I've been having some trouble using a for loop to perform tasks over
> similarly named vectors. This simple example below illustrates my problem
> pretty well. I would like to create two 5x5 arrays of zeros, but with
> dynamic names. In this case x_foo and x_bar would be the names. When I run
> this code, it clearly is looping over the string set, but it is not
> actually creating the array. I have had similar problem trying to call
> arrays into functions dynamically based on their names. Clearly I am just
> incorrectly referencing i, but I cannot figure it where the error is. I am
> trying to port a complicated version of this code from Stata, where this is
> quite easy to do by referencing i in your code as `i'. Sorry for such a
> novice question, but this has been driving me nuts all day!
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Alex
>
> n=5
> for i in ["foo","bar"]
> x_$i=zeros(n,n)
> println("x_$i")
> end
> x_bar
>
