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Re: Howto turn off using symbols to tag objects?

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg46595] Re: Howto turn off using symbols to tag objects?
• From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at earthlink.net>
• Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 13:06:51 -0500 (EST)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

On 2/24/04 at 9:04 PM, mvdv at spamcop.net (mvyver) wrote:

>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

What version of Mathematica are you using?

I get quite different results

In[1]:=
$Version

Out[1]=
5.0 for Mac OS X (June 10, 2003)

In[2]:=
NumberQ[ToExpression["123k"]]

Out[2]=
False

In[3]:=
FullForm@ToExpression@"123k"

Out[3]//FullForm=
Times[123,k]
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