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Re: How to use ** instead of ^

From	Joe Riel <joer@san.rr.com>
Newsgroups	comp.soft-sys.math.maple
Subject	Re: How to use ** instead of ^
Date	2014-03-02 14:33 -0800
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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"Thomas D. Dean" <tomdean@speakeasy.org> writes:

> I interface command line maple to gnuplot.
>
>> sprintf("%a",x**2+b*x+c);
>   "x^2+b*x+c"
>
> To gnuplot, ^ is xor.
>
> How may I do this?

Crude, but workable here, is,

str := sprintf("%a",x**2+b*x+c):
StringTools:-SubstituteAll( str, "^", "**");

-- 
Joe Riel

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