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Holding name of argument

• To: mathgroup@smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg10815] Holding name of argument
• From: mike johnson <mike_johnson@llnl.gov>
• Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1998 21:01:31 -0500
• Organization: LLNL

Greetings--
  I have written a function for writing data in binary form to a file. I
use the MathLink program by Todd Gayley and John Fultz that is a
replacement for the standard (slow) package Utilities`BinaryFiles`. I
am successful in writing mixed forms of ascii, single variable, and
large array data to the file (quickly). 
  The syntax of the function is writeBinary[field_,fileName_] := ...
What I am having trouble with now is writing the name of the first
argument into the file. That is, when the function is called I want to
save the name of the first argument as an ascii string and write that
string into the file. I have played for a while with HoldFirst and
HoldForm, but so far I am missing the point.
  Thanks in advance for any help.
--Mike
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