• ← $SystemCharacterEncoding
• → ToString

ToExpression

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ToExpression[input]

interprets a given string as Mathics input.

ToExpression[input, form]

reads the given input in the specified form.

ToExpression[input, form, h]

applies the head h to the expression before evaluating it.

• • ToExpression["1 + 2"]

• • ToExpression["{2, 3, 1}", InputForm, Max]

• • ToExpression["2 3", InputForm]

Note that newlines are like semicolons, not blanks. So so the return value is the second-line value.

• • ToExpression["2\[NewLine]3"]