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Re: unmap or remove header command

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  • Subject: Re: unmap or remove header command
  • From: "Lawrence M. Seiford, IEOR, UMass, (413) 545-1658." <SEIFORD at ecs.umass.edu>
  • Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1991 09:17 -0500

>If you have a coordinate set lst={{1,1,1},{1,2,3},...,{0,2,3}} you can map:
>
>        Map[Point,lst]
>to get a list of points:
>
>        {Point[{1,1,1}],Point[{1,2,3}],...,Point[{0,2,3}]}
>
>What is the command to reverse the map operation? That is, how can you
>remove a header and retrieve just coordinates?

Solution is to use Apply with the Identity as in

mapped=Map[Point,lst]

unmapped=Apply[Identity,mapped,{1}]

larry






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