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Re: Howto turn off using symbols to tag objects?

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg46604] Re: Howto turn off using symbols to tag objects?
• From: "Hans Michel" <hansjm at bellsouth.net>
• Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 13:06:59 -0500 (EST)
• References: <c1h0vu$9t5$1@smc.vnet.net>
• Reply-to: "Hans Michel" <hansjm at bellsouth.net>
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hi:

Leave your data as a string and try DigitQ["123k"]

Hans
"mvyver" <mvdv at spamcop.net> wrote in message
news:c1h0vu$9t5$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> Hi, Does anyone know how to turn this feature off?
> The section in the documentation "Using symbols to tag objects" is
> silent.
> My problem is that when trying to remove alphabet characters from a
> string I'm told that "123k" is a number!!
>
> NumberQ[ToExpression["123k"]]
> True
>
> Using ToExpression with different forms doesn't help.
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> Thanks in advance
>
> Mark
>