• ← String Manipulation

Symbol Handling

Symbolic data. Every symbol has a unique name, exists in a certain context or namespace, and can have a variety of type of values and attributes.

• Context — give the name of the context of a symbol
• Definition — give values of a symbol in a form that can be stored in a package
• DownValues — give a list of transformation rules corresponding to all downvalues defined for a symbol
• FormatValues — give a list of formatting transformation rules associated with a symbol.
• Information — get information about all assignments for a symbol
• Names — find a list of symbols with names matching a pattern
• OwnValues — give the rule corresponding to any ownvalue defined for a symbol
• SymbolName — give the name of a symbol as a string
• SymbolQ — test whether is a symbol
• Symbol — the head of a symbol; create a symbol from a name
• ValueQ — test whether a symbol can be considered to have a value