Re: Comprehensive Clear ?
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- Subject: [mg43221] Re: Comprehensive Clear ?
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- Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 22:25:14 -0400 (EDT)
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- Reply-to: "Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
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<tasande at mit.edu> wrote in message news:bht380$n0s$1 at smc.vnet.net... > MathGroup: > > Is there a command similar to Clear, or ClearAll, that will "Clear" all > variables without having to explicitly list them? I may have "forgotten" > variables on the loose, whose names I have forgotten and whose orginal input > cells I may have erased. I wish to be circumspect, and comprehensively > clear the past history of a notebook. > > Sincerely, > > Theodore Sande > MIT Department of Physics > tasande at mit.edu ? > > Theadore, Clear["`*"] will clear every symbol in the current context, similarly with ClearAll["`*"]. Other contexts will have to be stated explicitely: Clear["aaa*"]. You may have to unprotect the symbols first: Unprotect["`*], Unprotect["aaa`*]. Allan --------------- Allan Hayes hay at haystack.demon.co.uk Voice: +44 (0)116 241 8747 Fax: +44 (0)870 164 0565