Hello Robert,
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 01:45:17PM -0700, Robert Dodier wrote:
> Johannes,
>
> >Unfortunately, C does not allow to use e.g. %5 as a variable name,
> >so currently I need to run the result through "sed s/%/_/g".
> >Any ideas how to replace the % characters in maxima?
>
> Try ssubst in the stringproc package. e.g.
>
> load (stringproc);
> ssubst ("a", "b", "Foobar");
> => Fooaar
>
> Note that the arguments must be strings, so if you are trying to
> sanitize a symbol I guess you want something like
>
> ssubst ("pct", "%", string ('%o5));
> => pcto5
That did the trick. Thanks,
Johannes
>
> Hope this helps
> Robert Dodier