[OS X TeX] using variables in text via references or labels

[Alan Munn]

At 5:50 PM -0400 3/30/09, Alan Munn wrote:
>
>You're welcome.  Just for completeness, there was a redundancy in 
>the getrow command: it doesn't need to assign a command to the 
>Index, and it certainly doesn't need to assign it twice as in my 
>original example.  So a better command would be:
>
>\newcommand{\getrow}[2]{%
>\DTLforeach*[\DTLiseq{\myindex}{#2}]{#1}{%
>\tableA=A,\tableB=B,\tableC=C,\tableD=D}}
>
>  (Of course if having a command for the Index is useful, it could be 
>assigned.)

Sorry, I revised too quickly.  The command does need to be assigned 
once. So the correct command should be:

\newcommand{\getrow}[2]{%
\DTLforeach*[\DTLiseq{\myindex}{#2}]{#1}{%
\myindex=Index,\tableA=A,\tableB=B,\tableC=C,\tableD=D}}

Sorry for the extra messages.

Alan

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