Directly integrated into the Mathematica language is a convenient symbolic options mechanism that allows arbitrary sequences of named parameters to be given to both built-in ...

SyntaxInformation[f] gives information used to generate syntax coloring and other advisories when f[...] is entered as input.

Module and With allow you to give a specific list of symbols whose names you want to treat as local. In some situations, however, you want to automatically treat certain ...

Mathematica has uniquely flexible capabilities for processing large volumes of textual data. Most often data represented as a string is converted to lists or other constructs ...

RegularExpression["regex"] represents the generalized regular expression specified by the string " regex".

Cases[{e_1, e_2, ...}, pattern] gives a list of the e_i that match the pattern. Cases[{e_1, ...}, pattern -> rhs] gives a list of the values of rhs corresponding to the e_i ...

FullForm[expr] prints as the full form of expr, with no special syntax.

At the core of Mathematica is its highly developed symbolic language, which unifies a broad range of programming paradigms and uses its unique concept of symbolic programming ...

"Values for Symbols" discussed how you can use transformation rules of the form x->value to replace symbols by values. The notion of transformation rules in Mathematica is, ...

At the core of Mathematica is the foundational idea that everything —data, programs, formulas, graphics, documents—can be represented as symbolic expressions. And it is this ...