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BracketingBar for output

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg15717] BracketingBar for output
• From: phbrf at t-online.de (Peter Breitfeld)
• Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 03:42:15 -0500 (EST)
• Organization: das ist ein breites Feld ...
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

In my "personal package" I have the function Betrag[x_]:=Sqrt[x.x]

Now I want that in cases where this function can't be evaluated, the
output in StandardForm is displayes as |x|. (left and right
BracketingBar, these symbols you get when entering `ESC l| ESC' and
`ESC r| ESC'. 

To make it more clear (I hope :-)) I want the following behavior

In[1]  Betrag[foo]
Out[1] |foo|

but

In[1]  Betrag[{2,2,1}]
Out[1] 3

Is this possible?

TIA

es gruesst
      Peter
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  • Re: BracketingBar for output
    • From: Jurgen Tischer <jtischer@col2.telecom.com.co>