Conversion of text into Mathematica expressions
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- Subject: [mg28200] Conversion of text into Mathematica expressions
- From: bghiggins at ucdavis.edu (Brian Higgins)
- Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 04:13:23 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: The Math Forum
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Max, Try this:
In[1]:=mylist = {"2.5", "3.7", "7"}
Out[1]={"2.5", "3.7", "7"}
In[2]:=newlist = Map[ToExpression, mylist]
Out[2]={2.5, 3.7, 7}
The elements of the list are real numbers and can be manipulated using
various Mathematica functions e.g.
In[5]:=Apply[Plus, newlist]
Out[5]=13.2
Cheers,
Brian