extracting variable values from built-in function FindMinimum
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- Subject: [mg34357] extracting variable values from built-in function FindMinimum
- From: "Arny" <someone at somewhere.sometime>
- Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 05:08:46 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: University of California, Riverside
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Dear Newsgroup, I am minimizing a function which only has real values between 1 and -1, most of the time... occasionally its range is different and unknown, (but anyway not far from 1 and -1). I could write a routine using Check to catch errors and then expand the range over which FindMinimum is allowed to search, but since FindMinimum seems to be getting the appropriate values anyway, it tells me the values in its error message, I was wondering if there weren't some way to get at those values and use them without bothering to write said routine. I was thinking of analysing 'MessageList' or '$MessageList', but was thinking there might be some easier way. Aren't variables within packages accessible via their long names, e.g. `package`private`variablename or something like that? Regards, and thanks alot. Bernard -- ___________________________________ Bernard Gress Department of Economics University of California, Riverside 1150 University Ave. Riverside, CA 92521-0247 Fax: (909) 787-5685 Phone: (909) 778 9813 BGRESS at MAIL.UCR.EDU http://csep.ucr.edu/staff/bernard/index.htm ICQ: 9083461 ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯