Re: Displaying results in a column
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg104951] Re: Displaying results in a column
- From: David Bailey <dave at removedbailey.co.uk>
- Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:57:51 -0500 (EST)
- References: <hdgr97$jeq$1@smc.vnet.net>
AES wrote:
> I don't know if the following is legal or not or what dangers may lurk
> within it, and I recognize that other more formal methods exist, but if
> you just want to display a list (meaning the results from evaluating a
> series of expressions in that list) as a series of individual lines, the
> input syntax
>
> {expr1, "\n"expr2, "\n"expr3, "\n"expr4, . . . }
>
> seems to work just fine -- and could hardly be simpler to code.
>
Note that as written, you are actually multiplying the subsequent
expressions by the string "\n"! If one of your expressions happens to
evaluate to 1, you will get a surprise! You should use Column, as others
have already pointed out.
David Bailey
http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk