InputForm
InputForm[expr]
prints as a version of expr suitable for input to the Wolfram Language.
Details and Options

- InputForm always produces one-dimensional output, suitable to be typed as lines of Wolfram Language input.
- InputForm acts as a "wrapper", which affects display, but not evaluation. »
- Put (>>) produces InputForm by default.
- Short[InputForm[expr]] can be used, but may generate skeleton objects that cannot be given as Wolfram Language input.
- The option NumberMarks can be used to specify whether ` marks should be used to indicate type, precision, or accuracy of approximate numbers. »
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OutputForm FullForm StandardForm TextString Compress BinarySerialize
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Introduced in 1988
(1.0)
| Updated in 1996 (3.0)