From: Harry Truax <htruax@...>
Date: 2004-08-17T01:48:09+09:00
Subject: A method for summing several variables

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Hi everyone,

Just wanted to say thank you for all of your suggestions and coding =
examples. I will be studying your ideas closely to see if I can =
implement them in our product. I really=20
do not have the leeway to alter our product's code structure, I have to =
live with this fact (argh!!).

Our field variables (the ones we do arithematic on) are set up like:

box1_1 =3D ''
box1_2 =3D ''
box1_3 =3D ''
box1_4 =3D ''
box1_5 =3D ''
box1_6 =3D ''
box1_7 =3D ''
box1_8 =3D ''
box1_9 =3D ''
box1_10 =3D ''
box1_11 =3D ''
etc.

The actual amount and thus naming of these variables vary from =
application to application. Some of the summing operations are quite =
lengthy as in:

box5_189 =3D $CUR % (box5_5.to_f + box5_10.to_f + box5_15.to_f + =
box5_20.to_f + box5_25.to_f + box5_30.to_f + box5_35.to_f + box5_40.to_f =
+ box5_45.to_f + box5_50.to_f + box5_55.to_f + box5_60.to_f + =
box5_65.to_f + box5_70.to_f + box5_75.to_f + box5_80.to_f + box5_85.to_f =
+ box5_90.to_f + box5_95.to_f + box5_100.to_f + box5_105.to_f + =
box5_110.to_f + box5_115.to_f + box5_120.to_f + box5_125.to_f + =
box5_130.to_f + box5_135.to_f + box5_140.to_f + box5_145.to_f + =
box5_150.to_f + box5_155.to_f + box5_160.to_f + box5_165.to_f + =
box5_170.to_f + box5_175.to_f + box5_180.to_f + box5_185.to_f + =
box5_187.to_f)

I will try to find a shortcut method to handle this based on your =
suggestions, but if I have to manually type in each box name in setting =
up the implementation, I may
as well just type in the lengthy sum operation as shown above.=20

Thanks again for all of your help,

Harry Truax
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