Re: Conclusion: Mathematica will output plain text
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- Subject: [mg39875] Re: [mg39853] Conclusion: Mathematica will output plain text
- From: Dr Bob <drbob at bigfoot.com>
- Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2003 05:30:02 -0500 (EST)
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TextForm is undocumented, and that really seems dumb. Sometimes I get around the THOUSANDS of keywords missing from the installed help files by searching at the online Documentation Center --- but that doesn't help with TextForm. There are no articles about it. However, a search of the MathGroup archives yields 20 matches, some of which should be useful. You can't search for it unless you already know its name, of course. Bobby On Sat, 8 Mar 2003 02:52:27 -0500 (EST), Carlos Felippa <carlos at colorado.edu> wrote: > Thanks to all people who replied to me privately. The > use of TextForm, as suggested by David Park, seems to be closest to what > I want: > > TextForm["hello, world"]>>textfile > > writes exactly 12 visible characters on the file. > > For Print[TextForm["hello, world"]] a Save Selection > -> Plain Text works the same way. > > I could not find TextForm in my Mac/Mathematica 4.2.1 help file (wish I > had; in fact I searched for PlainTextForm PlainForm, etc., before the > OP). I wonder if it > appears in the helpfile for other machines, or is an > undocumented/experimental feature. > > Carlos Felippa > > -- majort at cox-internet.com Bobby R. Treat
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- Conclusion: Mathematica will output plain text
- From: carlos@colorado.edu (Carlos Felippa)
- Conclusion: Mathematica will output plain text