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Date:         Tue, 11 Jul 2006 17:02:53 +0200
Reply-To:     Max Bell <m.bell@bellherrmann.nl>
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From:         Max Bell <m.bell@bellherrmann.nl>
Subject:      Splitting a macro variable
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Dear listers,

In a macro I use variable !var. And actualy !var is a list of
STRING-variables which is set in the macro call:

!test var = 'var1 var2 var3 var4' .

I do this because the number of variables differs often and until now it
worked.

But now I need to compute something for each variable seperately like
- compute  var1='abc'.
- compute  var2='def'.
- etc...

So in the macro I need to split !var back into the original variables
var1, var2, etc. and then use these in compute-statements


Does anybody know how? 

Thank you.