38 questions linked to/from Elegant manipulation of the variables list
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### How to Clear variables represented as a list of strings?

Say I have a string list called fullpara fullpara={"width", "long", "line", "distance"} And there are corresponding variables ...
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### How can I assign many values each to a different variable? [duplicate]

How can I assign many values each to a different variable? For example, I want to set $a = f(1),\,b = f(2),\,c = f(3),\,\dots,\,z = f(26)$ (generally more variables than these). How can I do this ...
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### How to name a variable with the value of another variable?

A simple but very important (at least for me) question. In some languages for defining a variable, for example, we can do: i=10 "d"&i=30 So I have defined the variable d10, and... d10=30 ...
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### How to use Set correctly

My codes are shown in the picture attached. I'm writing codes for numerical calculations frequently, and I think it looks neat and clear to organize input parameters in the form of table. For example,...
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### How to transfer the list of parameters values into With [duplicate]

In the following case: With[{x=1,y=2},Print[x+y]] the values of x and y are declared in ...
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I have been working on picking expressions apart using Head and Part and encountered a little mystery. Consider the canonical ...
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### Using Block with a list of variables

I have a list of variables var={v1,v2}; which I want to protect/localize during a particular operation. I have decided that I want to use ...
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### How to extract a variable names (not values) from a list of transformation rules?

I am trying to extract variable names from a list of transformation rules mapping = {var1 -> 'val1', var2 -> 'val2' }. Variables ...
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### Assigning values to a list of variable names

As part of a calculation I need to do something like this Evaluate[{aaa, bbb, ccc}[[ index]]] = {1, 2, 3, 4, 5} so if index is ...
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### Printing names of indexed variables instead of values

I'd like to display only the variable (indexed variable) name (in symbol form, not in string form) instead of its value in Mathematica. Say I have a variable foo[i] ...
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### Assign to variables inside Array, rather than changing array entries [duplicate]

I am generating an Array with symbolic coefficients: coefficients = Array[c, 3] > {c[1], c[2], c[3]} I would like to assign a value to each of these generated ...
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### How to assign the values for the Table list?

Now, I want to assign some values for a Table list and I find that If {mat[1], mat[2], mat[3], mat[4], mat[5]}={4,23,3,12,1}; it is no problem. But, if we use ...
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### Table of references [duplicate]

I have a list of variables (say a, b, c, d, e) that I want to assign in a single command. {a,b,c,d,e} = {1,2,3,4,5} would ...