Basic Examples (2) 

Applying SymbolToSubcript for one unprotected symbol:

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Applying SymbolToSubcript to a list of unprotected symbols:

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Scope (3) 

Applying SymbolToSubscripts to a list of functions with protected heads:

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Indexed for symbolic matrices:

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Both the base and subscript in the output are symbols and inherit any existing definitions:

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Applications (3) 

Format a symbolic polynomial:

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Format a symbolic matrix:

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Using MultipleIndices option for symbolic matrices:

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Using :

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Define a function for making a Vandermonde matrix:

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Format a Vandermonde matrix:

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The SymbolToSubscript command allows to be used correctly when we have expressions with subscripts that are written as symbols:

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Possible Issues (1) 

Before getting the subscript format, SymbolToSubscript separates the expression x1y2 as {“x”,“1y2”}, and then passes each part to input form using ToExpression. Therefore, in the example x1y2 we get x_y2 instead x_1y2:

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