Edit

I found the problem. Let me rephrase it. I keep original question below. 

This causes an error

restart;
interface(warnlevel=4);
kernelopts('assertlevel'=2):
A:=module()
   export module_A1;
   local person_type;

   module person_type()
       option object;
       export name::string; 
       export age::string; 
    end module;

   module_A1:=module()
        export boo;
        boo:=proc()
          local X::A:-person_type;  #THIS LINE CAUSES ERROR
          #local X::person_type;    #THIS LINE ALSO CAUSES ERROR
          #local X;                 #THIS WORKS. No error
          X:=Object(person_type);
          return X;
       end proc;
    end module:
end module:

A:-module_A1:-boo();
           Error, (in boo) module does not export `person_type`

If I change  local X::person_type;  to just local X;  then no error is generated:

restart;
interface(warnlevel=4);
kernelopts('assertlevel'=2):

A:=module()
   export module_A1;
   local person_type;

   module person_type()
       option object;
       export name::string; 
       export age::string; 
    end module;

   module_A1:=module()
        export boo;
        boo:=proc()
          local X;  
          X:=Object(person_type);  #now this works
          return X;
       end proc;
    end module:

end module:

A:-module_A1:-boo();

              `Object<<person_type,1822742359104>>`

So the problem was in the variable declaration. Maple for some reason does not like   local X::A:-person_type;  and does not like local X::person_type; but things seem to work by just removing the ::type altogother. 

So this solves this problem for me for now, I can keep person module local, and still use it in other child modules. Even though I do not understand why Maple complains about it when I use ::

original question. Can be ignored now.

I have one main module, with 2 submodules (child modules) A1 and A2. The child modules are all exported so they can be called from outside the main module.

But I want to have one additional module X as object, to share among the child modules A1 and A2, but without having to also export module X.

But Maple wants me to also export module X in order to use it inside the child modules A1, and A2.

Is there a way to share X  among child modules, without exporting it? I only want X be visible to child modules (i.e. modules inside the main module)

The module X has option object and I want to use it as just a type basically (instead of using Record).

Here is an example

restart;
interface(warnlevel=4);
kernelopts('assertlevel'=2):
A:=module()
   export module_A1,module_A2;
   local person_type;

   module person_type()
       option object;
       export name::string; 
       export age::string; 
    end module;

   module_A1:=module()
        export boo;
        boo:=proc()
          local X::A:-person_type;
          X:=Object(A:-person_type);
          return 1;
       end proc;
    end module:

   module_A2:=module()
        export boo;
        boo:=proc()
          local X::A:-person_type;
          X:=Object(A:-person_type);
          return 1;
       end proc;
    end module:

end module:

Now the call A:-module_A1:-boo(); fail with Error, (in boo) module does not export `person_type`

This can be fixed by changing local person_type;  to export person_type;  but this means person_type can now be seen from outside the main package.

In Ada, it is possible to have private data type shared among child packages. How to do the same in Maple?

I have plain text files with comma delimited fields. Some fileds are strings and some are numeric.

When importing the file using

data:=Import(file_name,format="CSV",output=Matrix);

Maple changes any field which is string but contains a number inside it, as in "1"  to number 1 

And this causes all sorts of problems for me when processing the matrix data, since the program expects some fields to be strings. 

I looked at all options, but do not see how to tell Maple to keep a string as string, even if what is inside it is a number.

Here is an example file  "t.txt"

1,2,"0",4
1,2,"1",4
1,2,"A",4

I read it as follows

restart;
file_name:="C:/TMP/t.txt";
data:=Import(file_name,format="CSV",output=Matrix);

And Maple returns 

You see it changed "0" to 0 and "1" to 1.

This might be how CSV is supposed to work?. Does Maple have any option to override this default behavior in order to keep strings as strings, even though there is a number inside the string. I'll try to see if there is another format other than CSV to try which might behave better.

Maple 2021 on windows 10.

I could not find a function in StringTools package which removes all substrings (not single characters) from one long string directly. 

For example given a Latex string 

s:=" \\left \\int x \\,dx \\left";

And I want to remove all "\\left"  from it, which results in "  \\int x \\,dx "

In Mathematica, there is a function called StringDelete which removes all occurances of the substring in one call. Like this

s = " \\left \\int x \\,dx \\left";
StringDelete[s, "\\left"]

In Maple, I tried StringTools:-Remove(x->evalb(x="\\left"),s) and this did not work.Also tried

s:=" \\left \\int x \\,dx \\left";
StringTools:-Remove(x->StringTools:-Compare(x,"\\left"),s)

But this returned "leftintxdxleft"

And StringTools:-Delete needs a range, which one then has to first find.

I found this:

s:=" \\left \\int x \\,dx \\left";
idx:=[StringTools:-SearchAll("\\left",s)]; #returns index of first character in the string
StringTools:-Delete(s,idx[1]..idx[1]+4); #this only remove the first one. Need to loop to remove all.

Which returns the first substring. So one has to make a loop and keep removing all substrings found from the call to StringTools:-SearchAll

This is all too much work. But can be done.

The question is: What is the simplist way to remove all substrings from one string? All substrings are the same and the substrings can be more than one character.

Here is another example

s:="1234566X6Y67890A6BC66DEFGH";

And want to remove all "66" substrings, so the result will be

"12345X6Y67890A6BCDEFGH";

I am sure there must be an easier way to do this in Maple than having to call 2 or 3 functions and using a loop, but I could not find it so far. 

What would be the closest function in Maple to Mathematica's StringDelete? 

Maple generates latex for hbar as  \mathit{hbar}  instead of just \hbar which makes it not render in PDF.  Here is an example

expr:= hbar*x;
latex(expr)

The screen display is correct. But not the latex. When compiling the above in Latex this is the output

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{amssymb}

\begin{document}  

%Maple generated
\[
\mathit{hbar} x
\]

%default
\[
\hbar x
\]

%need amssymb for this
\[
\hslash x
\]
\end{document}

Compiling the above gives

So to use the standard hbar,  \mathit should not be used around it. 

ps. I like \hslash more myself than \hbar , so if there is a choice, will vote for \hslash for latex.

Maple 2021, windows 10. 

Physics:-Version()
The "Physics Updates" version in the MapleCloud is 973 and is 

   the same as the version installed in this computer, created 

   2021, May 3, 18:54 hours Pacific Time.

I only use latex() to convert Maple solution to Latex. I do not export whole document to Latex.

When I ask Maple to convert this solution of a PDE to latex, it generated strange Latex which is different, from the Latex it generates for same solution, when doing File->Export As->Latex.

The Latex it generated in the export case, is the one I want. The latex it generates from the latex() command, I am not able to use and is completely different. It has things like \mathit{Typesetting} and other different latex.  

Why is that? And how to make it generates the same Latex for this expression as in the export case?

First I show screen shot, then the worksheet to reproduce it

But Now when I save this worksheet (with only the expression I want) 

Using File->Export As->Latex, and then look at the latex for the "sol" in the latex file generated, this is what it shows (I am only showing the latex part of the above, not the whole file)

\begin{maplelatex}
\mapleinline{inert}{2d}{}
{\[\mathit{sol} \coloneqq u \left(r ,t \right)=\mathcal{L}^{-1}
\left(\frac{\mathrm{BesselJ}\left(0,10 \sqrt{-s}\, r \right) s}
{\mathrm{BesselJ}\left(0,20 \sqrt{-s}\right) \left(s^{2}+1\right)},s ,t \right)
-\mathcal{L}^{-1}\left(\frac{\mathrm{BesselJ}\left(0,10 \sqrt{-s}\, r \right)}
{\mathrm{BesselJ}\left(0,20 \sqrt{-s}\right) s},s ,t \right)
-\cos \left(t \right)+1\]}
\end{maplelatex}

The above latex I can compile standalone, and it does not have the problematic constructs found when using latex(sol)

One can see it is very different from the top one given earlier.

Why are the two latex different? Is there an extra setting one needs to adjust?  How make latex(sol) generate the same latex for the expression as found in the file generated by export as latex?

may_2.mw

update 1

Did some debugging. The problem happens when using `:-executeprintroutines`.  Tracing the latex() command in the debugger. At lines 42, it has the call

texlist := [latex:-Print(e,_rest,':-executeprintroutines',':- handleimaginaryunit',':-performonlyoncetasks',opt)];

Where e above is the expression to convert to Latex. When I removed ':-executeprintroutines' the problems in latex went away. Here is an example

restart;
sol:=u(r,t) = invlaplace(BesselJ(0,10*(-s)^(1/2)*r)/BesselJ(0,20*(-s)^(1/2))*s/(s^2+1),s, t) - invlaplace(BesselJ(0,10*(-s)^(1/2)*r)/BesselJ(0,20*(-s)^(1/2))/s,s, t)- cos(t) + 1;
latex:-Print(sol)

Gives

"u ! left(r , t\right)", ` = `, `\\mathit{invlaplace} 
\\! \\left(\\frac{\\mathit{BesselJ}\\! \\left(0, 10 \\sqrt{-s}\\, r \\right) s}
{\\mathit{BesselJ}\\! \\left(0, 20 \\sqrt{-s}\\right) \\left(s^{2}+1\\right)}, s , t\\right)
-\\mathit{invlaplace} \\! \\left(\\frac{\\mathit{BesselJ}\\! 
\\left(0, 10 \\sqrt{-s}\\, r \\right)}{\\mathit{BesselJ}\\! \\left(0, 20 \\sqrt{-s}\\right) s}, s , t\\right)
-\\cos \\! \\left(t \\right)+1`

Now notice what happens when adding ':-executeprintroutines'

restart;
sol:=u(r,t) = invlaplace(BesselJ(0,10*(-s)^(1/2)*r)/BesselJ(0,20*(-s)^(1/2))*s/(s^2+1),s, t) - invlaplace(BesselJ(0,10*(-s)^(1/2)*r)/BesselJ(0,20*(-s)^(1/2))/s,s, t)- cos(t) + 1;
latex:-Print(sol,':-executeprintroutines')

it gives the problematic latex

"u ! left(r , t\right)", ` = `, `\\mathit{Typesetting}\\mcoloneq \\mathit{msup}\\! 
\\left(\\mathit{Typesetting}\\mcoloneq \\mathit{mi}\\! 
\\left(\\text{\`\`$\\mathcal\\{L\\}$"}\\right), \\mathit{Typesetting}\\mcoloneq 
\\mathit{mrow}\\! \\left(\\mathit{Typesetting}\\mcoloneq \\mathit{mo}\\! 
\\left(\\text{\`\`$-$"}\\right), \\mathit{Typesetting}\\mcoloneq \\mathit{mn}\\! 
\\left(\`\`1"\\right)\\right), \\mathit{Typesetting}\\mcoloneq \\mathit{msemantics}=\\text{\`\`atomic"}\\right)\\! \\left(\\frac{J_{0}\\! \\left(10 
\\sqrt{-s}\\, r \\right) s}{J_{0}\\! \\left(20 \\sqrt{-s}\\right) \\left(s^{2}+1\\right)}, s , t\\right)-
\\mathit{Typesetting}\\mcoloneq \\mathit{msup}\\! \\left(\\mathit{Typesetting}\\mcoloneq 
\\mathit{mi}\\! \\left(\\text{\`\`$\\mathcal\\{L\\}$"}\\right), \\mathit{Typesetting}\\mcoloneq 
\\mathit{mrow}\\! \\left(\\mathit{Typesetting}\\mcoloneq \\mathit{mo}\\! \\left(\\text{\`\`$-$"}\\right), 
\\mathit{Typesetting}\\mcoloneq \\mathit{mn}\\! \\left(\`\`1"\\right)\\right), 
\\mathit{Typesetting}\\mcoloneq \\mathit{msemantics}=
\\text{\`\`atomic"}\\right)\\! \\left(\\frac{J_{0}\\! \\left(10 \\sqrt{-s}\\, r \\right)}
{J_{0}\\! \\left(20 \\sqrt{-s}\\right) s}, s , t\\right)-\\cos \\! \\left(t \\right)+1`

I do not know what :-executeprintroutines does and how one can tell latex() not to call it at the user level. I asked about :-executeprintroutines before here

  https://www.mapleprimes.com/questions/231230-Why-Latex-Removes-Constant-From-Expression

And I could not find any documenation on it.  

I tried to define my own executeprintroutines proc() which does nothing. But it did not help

restart;
sol:=u(r,t) = invlaplace(BesselJ(0,10*(-s)^(1/2)*r)/BesselJ(0,20*(-s)^(1/2))*s/(s^2+1),s, t) - invlaplace(BesselJ(0,10*(-s)^(1/2)*r)/BesselJ(0,20*(-s)^(1/2))/s,s, t)- cos(t) + 1;
executeprintroutines:=proc()
   NULL;
end proc;
latex(sol)

The Latex was not fixed. It is same. 

May be the above will help find the issue.