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Re: Question about Replace

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• Subject: [mg35698] Re: [mg35670] Question about Replace
• From: "Julio Vera" <jvera at adinet.com.uy>
• Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 04:16:48 -0400 (EDT)
• References: <200207250846.EAA12082@smc.vnet.net>
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Heather,

This could be a solution.

At first, the expression should be treated as text, in which the string
"x+y" would be replaced by the string "x". The result should then be turned
again into an expression.

 In[] expre=x+y+z/(x+y)+e^(x+y)+w*x+y

Out[] e^(x + y) + x + w x + 2 y + z/(x + y)

In[] expretxt="x+y+z/(x+y)+e^(x+y)+w*x+y"

Out[] "x+y+z/(x+y)+e^(x+y)+w*x+y"

In[] ToExpression[StringReplace[ expretxt,"x+y"->"x"]]

Out[] e^x + x + w x + z/x

I was not able to keep the expression ordered as entered. In fact, if we
manually write the solution, the output obtained is also sorted in this
convenient way. I tried Hold and HoldForm.

In[]:=
sol=x+z/x+e^x+w*x

Out[]=
e^x + x + w x + z/x

Julio
----- Original Message -----
From: "Xuguang Zhang" <xzhang2 at is2.dal.ca>
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Subject: [mg35698] [mg35670] Question about Replace


> Hello All,
>
> I have an expression: x+y+z/(x+y)+e^(x+y)+w*x+y.... I want to replace
> any (x+y) term by x no matter how the expression looks like.  I tried
> "/."command. However, it does not work properly. Is there any simple way
> of doing this? Thanks.
>
> --
> Xuguang(Heather) Zhang
>
>
>

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  • Question about Replace
    • From: xzhang2@is2.dal.ca (Xuguang Zhang)