MathGroup Archive: January 1999 [00171]

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Re: getting the name of a symbol

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Subject: [mg15469] Re: getting the name of a symbol
From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 04:22:09 -0500
Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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Hi Andrew,


f[s_Symbol]:=ToString[s]

will solve your problem.

Hope that helps
  Jens

Andrew Watson wrote:
> 
> Dear Matherati,
> 
---- snip ---
> 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

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