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  • Subject: [mg111555] Format
  • From: Derivator <salcedo at ugr.es>
  • Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 06:59:19 -0400 (EDT)

Hi. I need some help. The commands

Format[a[x_]]:=f[x,a];
Format[a[x_,c]]:=a[x];
Format[b[x_]]:=f[x,b];
Format[b[x_,c]]:=b[x];

assign a certain format to the symbols a and b, so that the input

{a[1],a[2,c],b[3],b[4,c]}

yields

{f[1,a],f[2,a],f[3,b],f[4,b]}

Now I want to do the same thing for several symbols a,b,.... all at
once.
I have tried

list={a,b};
Do[
Format[z[x_]]:=f[x,z];
Format[z[x_,c]]:=z[x];
,{z,list}];

but it does not work. The input

{a[1],a[2,c],b[3],b[4,c]}

yields

{f[1,z],z[2],f[3,z],z[4]}

Likewise the following also fails:

list={a,b};
Format[z_[x_]]:=f[x,z]/;MemberQ[list,z];
Format[z[x_,c]]:=z[x]/;MemberQ[list,z];

Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance

L.L.


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