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Head found ;-)

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg29838] Head found ;-)
• From: "Orestis Vantzos" <atelesforos at hotmail.com>
• Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 04:19:18 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: National Technical University of Athens, Greece
• References: <9ijhmt$rhn$1@smc.vnet.net>
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Major mistake ahead:
Symbols don't have Head! They are "terminal symbols" of the Mathematica
language and therefore they have no internal structure per se.
Now I suppose you want to check the Head of the ownvalue of the symbols.
This function returns a List of the names of the wanted symbols:

checkHeads[contxt_String, theHead_]:=
Select[Names[contxt<>"*"],Head[Symbol@#]===theHead&]

The output is a list of Strings (the names of the symbols).
Map the function Symbol to this List to get the Symbols.
Orestis

"Antoine Zahnd" <antoine.zahnd at iprolink.ch> wrote in message
news:9ijhmt$rhn$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> Hi,
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> How is it possible to return all the symbols ( belonging to the current
> context ),  having a prescribed Head ?
>
> Thank you very much for your help.
>
> antoine.zahnd at iprolink.ch
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