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Controlling the Display of Large Expressions
Short and Shallow Output
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Short
Short
[
expr
]
prints as a short form of
expr
, less than about one line long.
Short
[
expr
,
n
]
prints as a form of
expr
about
n
lines long.
MORE INFORMATION
Short
[
expr
]
gives a "skeleton form" of
expr
, with omitted sequences of
k
elements indicated by
k
.
In
StandardForm
, the characters used for this output are
\[LeftSkeleton]
and
»
.
Omitted sequences of elements are printed as
Skeleton
objects.
Short
prints long strings in skeleton form.
The number of lines specified need not be an integer.
Short
can be used with
InputForm
and other formats as well as
OutputForm
.
Short
acts as a "wrapper", which affects printing, but not evaluation.
Trying to feed
k
as obtained from
Short
back as input to
Mathematica
in
StandardForm
will generate an error.
Short
is used to limit the length of output in standard
Mathematica
warning and other messages.
EXAMPLES
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Basic Examples
(2)
Shorten the display of a large polynomial to about one line:
In[1]:=
Out[1]//Short=
Allow about three lines:
In[1]:=
Out[1]//Short=
Properties & Relations
(2)
SEE ALSO
Shallow
Format
Skeleton
StringSkeleton
TUTORIALS
Controlling the Display of Large Expressions
Short and Shallow Output
MORE ABOUT
Memory Measurement & Optimization
Tuning & Debugging
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k
. k as obtained from Short back as input to Mathematica in StandardForm will generate an error.
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