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Expression
Expression
is a symbol that represents an ordinary
Mathematica
expression in
Read
and related functions.
EXAMPLES
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A file containing
Mathematica
inputs:
Read the text as
Mathematica
expressions:
Read the text without evaluating it:
A file containing
Mathematica
inputs:
In[1]:=
Read the text as
Mathematica
expressions:
In[2]:=
Out[2]=
Read the text without evaluating it:
In[3]:=
Out[3]=
SEE ALSO
ToExpression
TUTORIALS
Manipulating Notebooks from the Kernel
Reading Textual Data
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