Re: Selection of sublist using Cases
- To: mathgroup at christensen.cybernetics.net
- Subject: [mg852] Re: Selection of sublist using Cases
- From: rubin at msu.edu (Paul A. Rubin)
- Date: Wed, 26 Apr 1995 00:19:22 -0400
- Organization: Michigan State University
In article <3mvegd$r0s at news0.cybernetics.net>,
sands at rs1.npt.nuwc.navy.mil (Charlie Rosenthal) wrote:
->Mathgroup,
->
->I wonder if someone could explain why the following doesn't
->seem to work, and hopefully, what might.
->
->I have a list such as:
->
->hullHL = {{12. , 34., 3, "POLY","aTop",{1.,2.,3.}},
-> {15. , 22., 2, "POLY","aBottom",{1.,2.,3.,4.}}
-> . . . . . .
-> . . . . . .
->
-> }
->
->I would like to form from this list a sublist consisting of all
->elements of the form {x_Real,y_Real,z_Integer,s1_String,"aTop",d_List}.
->
->Cases[hullHL,{x_Real,y_Real,z_Integer,s_String,"aTop",d_List}]
->
->returns {}. Why?
->
->Charlie E. Rosenthal, sands at rs1.npt.nuwc.navl.mil
->
I pasted your example directly into Mma (other than the ellipsis in the
definition of hullHL) and the Cases command worked. So my best guess is
whatever actually creates your list is giving some element a head other
than what you think it is (Real, Integer, String, List), even though it
prints similarly to the example above. Try FullForm[ hullHL ] and see if
anything untoward shows up.
Paul
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