StringForm v.s Row
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- Subject: [mg111478] StringForm v.s Row
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2010 06:34:30 -0400 (EDT)
- Reply-to: murray at math.umass.edu
For creating labeled output, one might use either of the following sorts
of expressions:
StringForm["x = ``", x/.First@Solve[3x-4==0,x]]
Row[{"x = ", x/.First@Solve[3x-4==0,x]}]
The resulting Output cells look the same, although the underlying
expressions in those Output cells are not. Is one form preferable to the
other, from the viewpoint of the appearance of the output, etc.?
[Yes, I realize that StringForm["controlstring", expr1,...] is doubtless
what you'd want to use if:
(1) the output were going to use the same value in more than one
place in the control string or were going to permute the order of two or
more expression values when they get inserted into the controlstring's
"slots"; or
(2) you wanted to include template text both before and after the
value to be inserted and you wanted to isolate the text labeling from
the expression whose value was to be inserted.]
--
Murray Eisenberg murray at math.umass.edu
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