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--- documentation:language_reference:objects:matrix:operations:tostring [2024/12/12 14:29] – created Maurits W. Haverkort
+++ documentation:language_reference:objects:matrix:operations:tostring [2025/11/20 04:20] (current) – external edit 127.0.0.1
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+We can turn matrix objects to strings. This allows one to print matrices. One can however also change the format of the string before printing a matrix
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+Here we change the curly brackets {,} to straight brackets [,].
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 ==== Input ====
 <code Quanty Example.Quanty>
--- some example code
+A = Matrix.New({{1,2},{3,4}})
+AStr = tostring(A)
+print(AStr)
+BStr = string.gsub(AStr, "{", "[")
+BStr = string.gsub(BStr, "}", "]")
+print(BStr)
 </code>
 ==== Result ====
 <file Quanty_Output>
-text produced as output
+{ {  1      ,  2      } ,
-</file>
+  {  3      ,  4      } }
+[ [  1      ,  2      ] ,
+  [  3      ,  4      ] ]
+  </file>
 ===== Table of contents =====
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+{{indexmenu>..:#2|tsort}}