From: Li Chen <chen_li3@...>
Date: 2009-07-22T00:49:27+09:00
Subject: Re: create a variable number of loop

> You can do this recursively by decrementing a depth count until you hit 
> the
> bottom, at which point to print the data you want:

Hi James,

Thank you very much for the codes. It solves part of my problem. I try 
to follow your idea  and
implement the reamining part. But I don't think I  can. Here is the 
whole story:

What I really  try to do is  to create a word of using letters of 
'A,B,C,D'' only with different size
(1-letter, 2-letter,3-letter, ..., up to 25-letter word).
For each word created  I count the value for each individual letter  and 
get the sum for the word.

And here are the rules:
A=0; B=1;C=2;D=3
for a word of 1 letter its value is:

'A'=>0; 'B'=>1;''C'=>2; ''D'=>3;

for 'A', it has 0*(4**0)  if it appears on 0th,     0*(4**1) if on 10th, 
0*(4**2)  if on 100th, so on and so on
for 'B', it has 1*(4**0)  if it appears on 0th,     1*(4**1) if on 10th, 
1*(4**2)  if on 100th, so on and so on
similar to 'C' and 'D'

so the following word of 'ABCD' has a value: 0*(4**3)+ 1*(4**2)+ 
2**(4**1)+3*(4**0)
'DDDD' has a value:3*(4**3)+ 3*(4**2)+ 3**(4**1)+3*(4**0)


Li
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