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I've got some code which generates a series with coefficients that are a rather complicated expressions of Greek letters with subscripts. I want to store some of these coefficients for future use, rather than computing them each time I run my program.

What I would like, is to store each coefficient as if I had used the "Copy As" -> "Input Text" functionality which you get when right clicking on a specific cell. And I would like to do this via the Export[] function rather than doing it for each coefficient manually. Does anyone know how to do this so that, in particular, the Greek letters are exported as $\backslash[\text{Rho}]$ as opposed to $\rho$. "Copy As" -> "Input Text" does this, but Export[] gives the formatted $\rho$, which causes problems on import.

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  • $\begingroup$ Have a look at CopyToClipboard I think it does what you want. You should note that there are functions for saving expressions for furture usesuch as Put and Save. $\endgroup$
    – Quantum_Oli
    Nov 23, 2016 at 9:38
  • $\begingroup$ Excellent, thank you! PutAppend and then ReadList gives me exactly what I want. $\endgroup$
    – Billy Pilgrim
    Nov 23, 2016 at 10:12
  • $\begingroup$ @BillyPilgrim If you use Put and Read together, then you shouldn't write to a file. Just use ToString. Your question seems to ask about exporting to a file, maybe copying to the clipboard, but your comment made me suspect that you just want a string. ... $\endgroup$
    – Szabolcs
    Nov 23, 2016 at 10:22
  • $\begingroup$ @Szabolcs What I meant by my comment is that I use Put/PutAppend to write to file, and then some time later, when I want the contents of the the file, I use ReadList. This provides (as far as I can tell) an acceptable solution for me. $\endgroup$
    – Billy Pilgrim
    Nov 23, 2016 at 11:15
  • $\begingroup$ @BillyPilgrim So your real question is how to save Mathematica expressions for later, and not how to format them in a certain way? $\endgroup$
    – Szabolcs
    Nov 23, 2016 at 11:15

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Use Export with "Package". Export["file.txt",expr,"Package", "Comments" -> None]

Alternatively use

ToString[expr, InputForm]

then write the resulting string to a file. References: ToString, InputForm

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