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How to remove just the outermost braces of a list?

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• Subject: [mg69876] How to remove just the outermost braces of a list?
• From: "Nasser Abbasi" <nma at 12000.org>
• Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 05:21:19 -0400 (EDT)
• Reply-to: "Nasser Abbasi" <nma at 12000.org>

hello

I thought this will be easy, but I can't seem to find an easy way to do the 
following.

e={a,{b}}
Print[e]  ------> This will print {a,{b}}

What can I do to make it print   a,{b}  ?

Flatten does not do it.  TableForm came close, but it removes all braces, 
not just the outermost.

Many times I get a list as a result which I want to print, but I do not want 
the outermost braces to be displayed as well. I want to display just the 
content of the list.

thanks,
Nasser

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