getting the name of a symbol
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg15412] getting the name of a symbol
- From: Andrew Watson <abwatson at mail.arc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 20:57:26 -0500
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Dear Matherati, I have a problem for which there must be a simple solution. Within a function f[a_] := blah blah blah I want to make use of the name of the symbol supplied as input to the function. For example, if called as f[qxyz] I want to get the string "qxyz". I have looked at HoldForm and SymbolName but nothing yet discovered seems to do the trick. Regards, Andrew B. Watson MS 262-2 NASA Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000 (650) 604-5419 (650) 604-0255 fax abwatson at mail.arc.nasa.gov http://vision.arc.nasa.gov/