Questions on the manipulation of String objects in Mathematica, and the functions used for these manipulations.
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How to convert TableForm to proper LaTex and why is “\” not replaced by StringReplace?
I'm trying to optimize the teXForm output of a table because the standard output ist not satisfying:
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Transform fancy usage messages in 1D string
When we look at the usage messages of built-in functions nowadays (not in the good old times, when they were a simple descriptions) we see that although they look pretty in the front end, it is really ...
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Unencoding encoded URLs in a function
Is there a built-in function for decoding encoded URLs in Mathematica?
I would like to convert an encoded URL, for example
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Finding strings in Web Code [duplicate]
I haven't found an answer that solves my problem, although I think it's actually a simple one. It seems hard to me because I don't have a lot of experience with string patterns.
I have a Web Code ...
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Construct file names using a number and a string prefix [duplicate]
I'm trying to append filenames with Mathematica, and cannot do it.
The output of my calculation are two lists : X and Y, ...
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how can i convert data into string format? [duplicate]
I have nested-lists in number format,like
data={{1,2,3},{2,{3,4,50}},{4,5,6},{3,{3,{5,6}}}}
I want to convert each number into ...
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Extracting text from cells, preserving non-ASCII characters
Consider the following setup, based on this answer by WReach:
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Faster way to convert real strings into numbers [duplicate]
Working with big files, I have to convert some numbers that are in string format into real MMA numbers. I know that I can use ToExpression but it's slow when ...
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Why do I get two different results from StringLength?
I spent a reasonable amount of time to find the origin of an error in a larger code segment.
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How to export a header before the data in the result file?
I would like to export a phrase to my result data as a heading.
I'm exporting the data correctly with
Export["file.dat", table].
But I'm doing several ...
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balanced Shortest[] and string-patterns
The pattern Shortest["A"~~__~~"B"] is oriented : It assumes the text is read from links to right and it takes the text between the first "A" and the next "B".
Any ...
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What pattern will match accented letters in a regular expression?
How should I modify the following such that the accented letter É is matched and the expression returns True?
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Concatenate strings from different levels of list
After a lot of trouble I've finally come pretty close to what I want to do. I now have a list that looks like this:
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Confused behavior using Dispatch to sort one list relative to another
I have a need to sort the entries of one list into the same sequence as the entries in a reference list. Because I have rather large lists involving strings, I'm trying to use Dispatch to accomplish ...
