Question

I am using Put (>>) to store information that I am obtaining in Mathematica. The problem is that I am putting a several variables. However, if I do the following, it outputs to a file called year rather than my variable.

For example:

year=64;
sortedTally>>year;

This exports to a file named year rather than a file named 64. The documentation notes that expr >> filename is equivalent to expr >> "filename". Is there any way to circumvent this and put to a filename that changes based on the variables? This is similarly reiterated in the documentation file on Operator Input Forms (at the bottom).

Answer 1

In this case you need to use Put[sortedTally, ToString[year]].