Re: Variable question
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- Subject: [mg92510] Re: Variable question
- From: Szabolcs Horvát <szhorvat at gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 04:35:36 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: University of Bergen
- References: <gc0tkn$9ci$1@smc.vnet.net>
Johney at giganews.com wrote:
> I have the following test code
>
> c = 3
> var = "c"
> v = StringTake[var, {1}]
> v
>
>
> v is showing up as c but I want it to show up as 3. Is there a way to do this?
>
Converting strings to variable names became awfully popular the last few
days ...
Try Symbol[var] or ToExpression[var], but keep in mind that resorting to
methods like this is always never necessary in Mathematica.