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excerpt: "I had a program in which I wished to change a number of variables, many of them repeated in different parts of the program, such as changing STATES to PROVINCES, and ZIP CODE to POST CODE, etc., and I got tired of going back and forth through the listing. I decided there just had to…"
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# Some QL Stuff

I had a program in which I wished to change a number of variables, many of them repeated in different parts of the program, such as changing STATES to PROVINCES, and ZIP CODE to POST CODE, etc., and I got tired of going back and forth through the listing. I decided there just had to be an easier way to do the job.