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Evaluating Global Variables Named Strings as Variables

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  • Subject: [mg105465] Evaluating Global Variables Named Strings as Variables
  • From: BenT <brtubb at pdmusic.org>
  • Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 04:30:51 -0500 (EST)

Consider the output of this:

a=Names["System`$*"]

How does one then process/evaluate each String element of the
resulting List, as the global function name which it represents?

For a more direct (simpler) example: if given

a={$AddOnsDirectory,$BaseDirectory}

Then this output is obtained.

{C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Mathematica,C:
\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Mathematica}

However what I really want to be able to do is process "a" somehow so
that I get the effect of multiple Input cells with their corresponding
Output cells displayed, namely:

$AddOneDirectory

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Mathematica

$BaseDirectory

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Mathematica

How is this achieved?

--- Benjamin Tubb


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