Re: CompressedData in Buttons
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- Subject: [mg120574] Re: CompressedData in Buttons
- From: A Retey <awnl at gmx-topmail.de>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 08:02:39 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi, > I have some Buttons that display various data, e.g., area, > population, density, etc. of U.S. states, and would like to update > the data. I have only the buttons, not the Input code that produced > them long ago. Using Show Expression on the button reveals that, > instead of being in List form, much of the data appears as > "CompressedData[ ... (gibberish) ...]. > > How can I recover the original, uncompressed, data so that I can > revise it? I found nothing in the Documentation Center or Virtual > Book, and none of the 74 hits on wolfram.com appear to shed any > relevant light. I think you will just need to apply Uncompress to the "glibberish", which should be a string. If you have the CompressedData[..] as an expression, you can convert the compressed part with: CompressedData["..."] /. Verbatim[CompressedData][s_String] :> Uncompress[s] hth, albert