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Re: Problem with strings and backslashes

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• Subject: [mg99830] Re: Problem with strings and backslashes
• From: David Bailey <dave at removedbailey.co.uk>
• Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 04:22:18 -0400 (EDT)
• References: <gub7ej$4h5$1@smc.vnet.net>

LordBeotian wrote:
> I'm trying to work with strings wich are LaTeX codes of formulas. I
> want to make substitution of particular substrings. The problem is
> that Mathematica (5.1) has a strange behaviour with the backslashes.
> When it finds "\tau" it removes the "\t" in the output. The same
> happen with "\right" which becomes "ight". To make it work properly I
> need to manually add on the input an additional backslash  at the
> beginning of "\tau" and "\right": "\\tau" becames "\tau". But in this
> way my work go on too slowly. What can I do?
> 
One answer might be to use some other character - of which there are 
plenty in Mathematica - instead of the backslash, and then use 
StringReplace somewhere in your code to change it into the backslash 
character.

David Bailey
http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk