Replacing Tabbed Arrays to avoid "hard-coding"

[Ashish_Kumar]

I have a working model which uses Tabbed Arrays. I've pasted an example below. I would like to revise the model to read data from an Excel file instead. The variable being defined does not vary with time; it depends on two subscript variables, "Age" and "Gender".

I tried using GET XLS LOOKUP and got an error. Before spending more time on this, I would like to ask: what is the simplest way to achieve my aim? I want to avoid having the numbers hard-coded into the model, to make them easier to change.


age specific mortality rate[Female, Age]=TABBED ARRAY(
0.00201 0.00201 0.00014 0.00014 0.00013 0.00012 0.00011 0.00011 0.0001 0.0001
9e-05 9e-05 9e-05 9e-05 0.0001 0.00011 0.00012 0.00013 0.00014 0.00016 0.00017
0.00019 0.0002 0.00021 0.00021 0.00021 0.0002 0.0002 0.0002 0.00022 0.00023
0.00025 0.00027 0.00029 0.00031 0.00034 0.00038 0.00041 0.00045 0.00049 0.00055
0.0006 0.00066 0.00073 0.00082 0.00092 0.00103 0.00114 0.00126 0.00141 0.00157
0.00173 0.0019 0.00208 0.00228 0.00249 0.00271 0.00294 0.00321 0.00354 0.00391
0.00428 0.00469 0.00521 0.00591 0.00672 0.00757 0.00844 0.00939 0.01047 0.0116
0.01274 0.01399 0.01559 0.01773 0.02019 0.02273 0.02536 0.02835 0.03188 0.03571
0.03958 0.04358 0.04822 0.05406 0.06105 0.06837 0.07641 0.08522 0.09487 0.1054
0.11685 0.12928 0.14273 0.15723 0.17283 0.18956 0.20744 0.22648 0.24669 0.26809
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[Administrator]

GET XLS CONSTANTS should do what you want.

https://www.vensim.com/documentation/fn ... +constants

[Ashish_Kumar]

Thank you. That works fine.