Mathematica Tutorial: Notebooks And Documents - Wolfram Research

Notebooks and Documents 103ToBoxes yields the boxes themselves.In[5]:= ToBoxes@x^2 + y^2, StandardFormDOut[5]= RowBox@8SuperscriptBox@x, 2D, +, SuperscriptBox@y, 2D "Times"DOut[8]= 2 2x + yIf you operate only with one-dimensional structures, you can effectively use ToString to dostring manipulation with formatting functions.This generates a string corresponding to the OutputForm of StringForm.In[9]:=ToString@StringForm@"``^10 = ``", 4, 4^10DD êê InputFormOut[9]//InputForm= "4^10 = 1048576"InputFormstrings corresponding to keyboard inputStandardForm strings or boxes corresponding to standard two-dimen -sional input (default)TraditionalFormstrings or boxes mimicking traditional mathematicalnotationSome forms handled by ToExpression.