Re: Copying text out of mathematica
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- Subject: [mg94162] Re: Copying text out of mathematica
- From: Mariano Suárez-Alvarez <mariano.suarezalvarez at gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 06:14:33 -0500 (EST)
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On Dec 5, 8:32 am, John Fultz <jfu... at wolfram.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Dec 2008 05:44:17 -0500 (EST), car... at colorado.edu wrote:
> > On Dec 1, 10:30 pm, John Fultz <jfu... at wolfram.com> wrote:
>
> >> On Mon, 1 Dec 2008 07:01:25 -0500 (EST), Mariano Su=E1rez-Alvarez wr=
ote:
> >>> Hi all,
>
> >>> this is probably silly, but anyways... How do I copy text out of
> >>> Mathematica (6.0.3, Linux) as plain text without the really, really
> >>> annoying \ characters that Mathematica adds to mark line breaks?
> >>> How does one control the line-length used by InputForm, for example,
> >>> when doing things like
>
> >>> InputForm@ StringJoin@ Table["a", {160}]
>
> >>> Cheers,
>
> >>> -- m
>
> >> By default, copying Input or Output cells from Mathematica goes to a
> >> great deal of trouble to preserve evaluation properties. But to sim=
ply
> >> copy what you see, just do Copy As->Plain Text. Copying this way ha=
s an
> >> infinite width, incidentally...so the only line breaks which will be
> >> copied are those which are explicitly in the thing you copied.
>
> >> Copy As Plain Text also has a keyboard shortcut, Ctrl+Shift+C (or
> >> Cmd+Shift+C on the Mac).
>
> >> Sincerely,
>
> >> John Fultz
> >> jfu... at wolfram.com
> >> User Interface Group
> >> Wolfram Research, Inc.
>
> > Selecting the InputForm output with the mouse then
> > doing CopyAs->PlainText preserves the same unwanted
> > linefeeds and spaces inserted by InputForm.
>
> Yes, I wasn't paying close attention here. The original question sugge=
sts it's
> a copy/paste problem, but copy/paste is, in this case, faithfully represe=
nting
> the output...so the first question ought to be, how do I get InputForm to
> produce something without backslashes and newlines?
>
> To which the answer is this...
>
> SetOptions["stdout", PageWidth -> Infinity];
> InputForm@StringJoin@Table["a", {160}]
Ah! That's precisely what I was looking for.
Now, I would have *never* have thought of changing
options to stdout to do that, mostly because the output
in this case is certainly not going to stdout!
Thanks.
-- m