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Local variables in Module leak into the Global context
From the Mathematica documentation on Module:
Module allows you to set up local variables with names that are local to the module.
But after using ...
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Why doesn't Mathematica use uniform criteria for validating Options?
Plot[Sin[x], {x, 0, 1}, pp -> 0]
Gives as expected:
Plot::optx: Unknown option pp in Plot[Sin[x],{x,0,1},pp->0]. >>
However:
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Tokenize Mathematica input in a simple way
Background
Usually, I give detailed descriptions when I have a question which sometimes lead to that users don't write their answers because they maybe think their answer is too simple. Therefore, I ...
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balanced Shortest[] and string-patterns
The pattern Shortest["A"~~__~~"B"] is oriented : It assumes the text is read from left to right and it takes the text between the first "A" and the next "B".
Any ...
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Light syntax parser for Mathematica?
My netbook is too slow to install Mathematica. I'm not set against working in a text editor, but I like having an automated highlighting/formatting environment; can anyone recommend a good gedit ...
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How to programmatically replace an expression in a .m file
I'm trying to write some code to programmatically replace a particular expression in my init.m file with a different expression. (It'll probably be some multi-line ...
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On Reverting Code that Mma Switches to Raw Input Form Back to Standard Form
I experienced a similar issue to what is described in this post while editing formatted usage messages (that contained italics) in the declaration section of a package that I'm developing in the ...
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Extracting text from nested HTML lists <ul> <li>
We wish to analyze the tree structure of HTML documents that consist of nested lists, ie, using the HTML tags <ul> and ...
