Re: Problem with strings and backslashes
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- Subject: [mg99830] Re: Problem with strings and backslashes
- From: David Bailey <dave at removedbailey.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 04:22:18 -0400 (EDT)
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LordBeotian wrote: > I'm trying to work with strings wich are LaTeX codes of formulas. I > want to make substitution of particular substrings. The problem is > that Mathematica (5.1) has a strange behaviour with the backslashes. > When it finds "\tau" it removes the "\t" in the output. The same > happen with "\right" which becomes "ight". To make it work properly I > need to manually add on the input an additional backslash at the > beginning of "\tau" and "\right": "\\tau" becames "\tau". But in this > way my work go on too slowly. What can I do? > One answer might be to use some other character - of which there are plenty in Mathematica - instead of the backslash, and then use StringReplace somewhere in your code to change it into the backslash character. David Bailey http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk