Short

Usage

• Short[expr] prints as a short form of expr, less than about one line long.
• Short[expr, n] prints as a form of expr about n lines long.

Notes

• Short[expr] gives a "skeleton form" of expr, with omitted sequences of k elements indicated by

• In StandardForm, the characters used for this output are \[LeftSkeleton] and \[RightSkeleton].

• Omitted sequences of elements are printed as Skeleton objects.

• Short prints long strings in skeleton form.

• The number of lines specified need not be an integer.

• Short can be used with InputForm and other formats as well as OutputForm.

• Short acts as a "wrapper", which affects printing, but not evaluation.

• Trying to feed

as obtained from Short back as input to Mathematica in StandardForm will generate an error.

• Short is used to limit the length of output in standard Mathematica warning and other messages.

• See also: Shallow, Format.

• New in Version 1; modified in 3.