Problem 1973. Reassign cell contents to empty variables, preserving cell content data type

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Dyuman Joshi on 18 Nov 2021

I tried using eval but it is not supported in any format. Sigh

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Alfonso Nieto-Castanon on 8 Nov 2013

when the variable is a struct it is unclear whether "preserving the data type" should preserve the field names or not (testsuite expects the latter)

Ken Deeley on 12 Nov 2013

Structure field names are not required to be preserved.

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