Converting between Expressions & Strings
Expressions in
Mathematica can be represented as strings in a variety of ways, for display, export, or processing.
Mathematica provides powerful functions for formatting expressions as strings, and for parsing strings to determine the expressions they represent.
ToString — convert any expression to a string
ToExpression — convert a string to an expression
SyntaxQ,
SyntaxLength — test syntactic correctness of input strings
ImportString — import many formats of strings to give expressions
ExportString — export expressions to give many formats of strings
IntegerString — convert an integer to a string
DateList,
DateString — convert between string and list forms of dates
Symbol,
SymbolName — convert between strings and symbols
SpokenString — convert to a spoken representation of an expression
