Re: getting the name of a symbol
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg15477] Re: getting the name of a symbol
- From: Stephen P Luttrell <luttrell at signal.dra.hmg.gb>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 04:22:18 -0500
- Organization: Defence Evaluation and Research Agency
- References: <77jjc1$2lf@smc.vnet.net>
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
>Within a function > >f[a_] := blah blah blah > >I want to make use of the name of the symbol supplied as input to the >function. > >For example, if called as > >f[qxyz] > >I want to get the string "qxyz". I have looked at HoldForm and >SymbolName but nothing yet discovered seems to do the trick. ToString seems to do what you want. For instance: In[1]:=ToString[x]<>ToString[y] Out[1]="xy" Stephen P Luttrell Signal Processing and Imagery Department DERA Malvern, St.Andrew's Road Malvern, United Kingdom, WR14 3PS +44 (0)1684 894046 (tel) +44 (0)1684 894384 (fax) luttrell at signal.dera.gov.uk (email)