Re: [Maxima-discuss] "stringout" to the console?

[Henry B. <hb...@pi...>]

Yes, thanks!  Both "grind()" and "string()" do variations on what I want.

Is there any way to update the documentation on "grind" and "string" to mention considering "stringout" and vice versa ?

This kind of documentation would be helpful for newbies (and some oldie newbies like me).

At 02:38 PM 7/19/2014, Richard Fateman wrote:
>maybe grind()  will do what you want?
>
>remember grindef?
>
>RJF
>On 7/19/2014 2:06 PM, Henry Baker wrote:
>>I hope this is a trivial problem, but how do I do "stringout" to the console?
>>
>>Maxima 5.28.0-2 http://maxima.sourceforge.net
>>using Lisp GNU Common Lisp (GCL) GCL 2.6.8 (a.k.a. GCL)
>>Distributed under the GNU Public License. See the file COPYING.
>>Dedicated to the memory of William Schelter.
>>The function bug_report() provides bug reporting information.
>>(%i1) x+y;
>>(%o1)                                y + x
>>(%i2) stringout("d:\\foo.mac",%);
>>(%o2)                             d:/foo.mac
>>(%i3)
>>
>>I can go into the ascii file foo.mac to find the string "y+x;", but is there an easier way to simply display it on the console as a string like this: "y+x;" ?