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Extracting terms from an equation

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• Subject: [mg69697] Extracting terms from an equation
• From: "Coleman, Mark" <Mark.Coleman at LibertyMutual.com>
• Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 07:29:22 -0400 (EDT)

Greetings,

I'd like to find a general way to extract all of the terms from an
equation that involve a given variable. For instance, consider the
equation

myEquation == Exp[a + b x^2 + c y^2 + d x y + e x^3]]

I'd like to define a function such that

   myFunction[myEquation,x] returns the result {b x^2, d x y, e x^3}

Thanks,

-Mark

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