Re: How to make dynamic strings?
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- Subject: [mg111932] Re: How to make dynamic strings?
- From: Simon <simonjtyler at gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 07:22:26 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi Sam,
I don't know if this is the best way to do things, but every Dynamic
object is of the form Dynamic[expr].
So if you ask for the first element, then you just get (and evaluate)
expr.
In[1]:= par10;
par2=Dynamic[par1];
par3=ToString[First[par2]]
Out[3]= 200
In[4]:= FullForm[par3]
Out[4]//FullForm= "200"
On Aug 18, 9:04 pm, sam ti83 <sam_t... at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to make a string from a dynamic expression. I don't know how to do that since mathematica doesn't recognize the regular way of making strings from normal expressions (see below) - and I can't find any documentation on this problem. So your help is very welcome!
>
> This is a very simple example to illustrate my problem:
>
> In[378]:= par1 = 200;
> par2 = Dynamic[par1];
> par3 = ToString[par2]
>
> Out[380]= "Dynamic[par1]"
>
> Instead of having par3 = "200", I get par3= "Dynamic[par1]". Do you know why mathematica doesn't evaluate a dynamic expression in ToString? Any solutions??
>
> Thanks,
> Sam