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Re: Converting an expression to a list of terms?

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• Subject: [mg71513] Re: Converting an expression to a list of terms?
• From: Jon Harrop <jon at ffconsultancy.com>
• Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 07:05:10 -0500 (EST)
• Organization: Flying Frog Consultancy Ltd.
• References: <200611200743.CAA09240@smc.vnet.net> <ejtdhl$j0v$1@smc.vnet.net>

János wrote:
>>    A + B - C + . . .

The FullForm view of that is:

In[1]:= A + B - C // FullForm

Out[1]//FullForm= Plus[A, B, Times[-1, C]]

So you just want to replace the Plus with List:

In[2]:= List @@ (A + B - C)

Out[2]= {A, B, -C}

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Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy
Objective CAML for Scientists
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