Convert function name to string?

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April 4, 2020
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Noticing in Prime Express that evaluating a function name yields a string, ...

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I was wondering if anybody knows of a way to save that string to a variable?

(This is something that I asked for since about Mathcad 11 - it would have been quite handy to have when, say, evaluating a list of functions or identifying a function that's stored as an array element)

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LucMeekes

23-Emerald IV

The obvious doesn't work:

Unfortunately the variable 'a' is NOT a string, as shown by:

(Complains that "This value must be a string")

Instead, a is now (also) the sine function:

Note: This works the same way in Mathcad 11:

Success!
Luc

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StuartBruff

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23-Emerald V

Thanks, Luc.

I already tried your suggestion, even though I knew it wouldn't work (otherwise assigning functions to names wouldn't!!), but I was wondering if there was some operation that would do the job, eg, something along the lines of converting a range variable into a vector, ...

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