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Re: expression formatting inside tables

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  • Subject: [mg54616] Re: [mg54591] expression formatting inside tables
  • From: Igor Antonio <igora at wolf-ram.com>
  • Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 03:21:18 -0500 (EST)
  • Organization: Wolfram Research, Inc.
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Trevor Baca wrote:
> hi mathgroup folks,
> 
> let
> 
>   foo[x_] := x^2
> 
> then how to easily tableize the following?
> 
>   foo[1]   1
>   foo[2]   4
>   foo[3]   9
>   foo[4]   16
>   foo[5]   25
> 
> because neither
> 
>   Table[{HoldForm[foo[i]], foo[i]}, {i, 5}] // TableForm
> 
> nor
> 
>   Table[{foo[HoldForm[i]], foo[i]}, {i, 5}] // TableForm
> 
> did what i was expecting.
> 
> trevor

Trevor,

Use replacement rules after you use HoldForm:

In[9]:= Table[{HoldForm[foo[a]]/.a->i,foo[i]},{i,5}]

Out[9]= {{foo[1],1},{foo[2],4},{foo[3],9},{foo[4],16},{foo[5],25}}

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