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Re: About subscripts

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  • Subject: [mg65387] Re: About subscripts
  • From: ted.ersek at tqci.net
  • Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 06:34:34 -0500 (EST)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

I have a package on MathSource called SubscriptSymbols.
Somebody wanted to use it to Symbolize E or I with an Integer
subscript. I can fix the package to allow that. However, to
get it right I need to know how to make the simple function
MakeString[s] below.

In[1]:=
  { MakeString[E], MakeString[ \[ExponentialE] ] }//InputForm

Out[1]=
  { "E", "\[ExponentialE]" ]


The obvious solution ToString doesn't do it, and I can't find a
solution.

In[2]:=
  { ToString[E], ToString[ \[ExponentialE] ] }//InputForm

Out[2]=
  {"E", "E"}

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It would be just as good if instead I had the function
IdenticalQ below. It has to work with arguments that are
Symbols.

In[3]:=
{
IdenticalQ[E,E],
IdenticalQ[E, \[ExponentialE] ],
IdenticalQ[ \[ExponentialE], E],
IdenticalQ[ \[ExponentialE], \[ExponentialE] ]
}

Out[3]=
{True, False, False, True}

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Thanks,
  Ted Ersek



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