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Re: Help with Hold

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• Subject: [mg100933] Re: [mg100917] Help with Hold
• From: John Fultz <jfultz at wolfram.com>
• Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 06:18:27 -0400 (EDT)
• Reply-to: jfultz at wolfram.com

On Thu, 18 Jun 2009 04:52:55 -0400 (EDT), Erich Neuwirth wrote:
> How can I transform
>
> Hold[x,Null,y,Null,Null]
> into
> {"x",Null,"y",Null,Null}
> even if x and/or y have assigned values?

Not sure if this is the most concise/clever way, but it certainly works.  I
assume here that your criteria for choosing 'x' and 'y', but not 'Null' is that 
'x' and 'y' are symbols and in the Global` context.

isGlobalSymbol[x_Symbol] := Context[x] === "Global`";
isGlobalSymbol[x_] := False;
SetAttributes[isGlobalSymbol, HoldAll];

List @@ (Hold[x, Null, y, Null, Null] /. 
   var_?isGlobalSymbol :> ToString[Unevaluated[var]])

Sincerely,
 
John Fultz
jfultz at wolfram.com
User Interface Group
Wolfram Research, Inc.

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