Re: returning a variable's name, rather than the variable's contents
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- Subject: [mg68435] Re: returning a variable's name, rather than the variable's contents
- From: Jean-Marc Gulliet <jeanmarc.gulliet at gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 03:46:30 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
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- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Michael Stern wrote:
> There must be a simple way to do this but it eludes me. Take for example the
> following:
>
> In[2]:= a=1;b=2;c=3;
>
> In[3]:= Max[a,b,c]
>
> Out[3]= 3
>
> What would I do if I wanted Out[3] to equal "c" ?
What about the following trick?
In[1]:=
vars = {a, b, c};
varNames = ToString /@ vars;
values = {1, 2, 3};
vars = values;
First[Extract[varNames, Position[vars, Max[vars]]]]
Out[5]=
"c"
HTH,
Jean-Marc