SetAlphaChannel[image] adds a fully opaque alpha channel to image.SetAlphaChannel[image, a] sets the opacity of all pixels to a.SetAlphaChannel[image, aimage] sets the alpha ...

SetFileDate["file"] sets the modification and access dates for a file to be the current date.

SplineDegree is an option for spline functions and graphics primitives that specifies the degree of polynomial basis to use.

StringFormat["string"] attempts to determine what ImportString format could be used to import the string " string".

SymbolName[symbol] gives the name of the specified symbol.

Functions for grouping together elements of lists. Here is a list. This groups the elements of the list in pairs, throwing away the single element left at the end.

Testing and searching for elements of lists. "Getting Pieces of Lists" discusses how to extract pieces of lists based on their positions or indices. Mathematica also has ...

Expressions corresponding to cells. Here is a notebook containing a text cell and a Mathematica input cell. Here are the expressions corresponding to these cells.

In addition to a rich set of standard file operations, Mathematica's unified symbolic architecture makes it easy to apply algorithmic approaches and efficient higher-level ...

Mathematica represents Boolean expressions in symbolic form, so they can not only be evaluated, but also be symbolically manipulated and transformed. Incorporating ...