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Re: output_to_input

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  • Subject: [mg3420] Re: [mg3380] output_to_input
  • From: Liju Chen <houshou at eecs.umich.edu>
  • Date: Wed, 6 Mar 1996 01:46:21 -0500
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On Sun, 3 Mar 1996, FARNOOD, Ramin wrote:

> I am using Mathematica 2.2.3 on windows 3.1.
> I am trying to copy an output cell into an input 
> cell. The output is something like this:
> 
>            2
> 2 + 3 x - x
> 
> The problem is the power 2 of the last term.
> When I copy the output cell and paste it into an 
> input cell, the power 2 appears in front of the
> rest of the terms! Surprisingly, if I change the 
> format of the output cell into an input cell 
> using the pull down menu:
>         ( Format->Cell->Input ) 
> only its font is changed into bold! Is it supposed 
> to be like this? How can I fix this without manually 
> editing the cell.
> 
> 
> PS: I have a few years of experience with 
> Mathematica on NeXT, and I have been doing 
> these quite often without a problem. Why 
> different versions of Mathematica on 
> different machines do not behave the same?
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> 
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> 
Before you paste the output cell, say your output is 

     2 
1+x+x,

use InputFrom[%] to convert to input format. 

Houshou

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