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Extracting the name of a variable

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• Subject: [mg26883] Extracting the name of a variable
• From: Mike Yukish <may106 at psu.edu>
• Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 01:27:27 -0500 (EST)
• Organization: Penn State University, Center for Academic Computing
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hello,

I'd like to make a function that extracts the name of a variable and
makes a string. So the function would do:

In:  z = 4

In: nameExtract[z]

Out: "z"

It appears to not be so simple, since once you assign z a value, the
function SymbolName[z] returns an error. what's the trick?

I want to do this so I can make a function takes z as an argument, and
generates a name:value pair  "z=4"

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