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Re: Position[] pattern matching

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  • Subject: [mg4287] Re: Position[] pattern matching
  • From: Harald Berndt <haraldb at nature.berkeley.edu>
  • Date: Sat, 29 Jun 1996 03:54:50 -0400
  • Organization: University of California Forest Products Lab
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

> 
> The problem is that Mathematica is trying to evaluate x[[4]], where
> x either has no value or is an expression that doesn't have at
> least four parts.  You can avoid this problem using:
> 
>     Position[
>         finfo,
>         Unevaluated[x /; (StringTake[ x[[4]], 1] == "L")]
>     ]
> 
> The computation eventually works because x[[4]] evaluates to x[[4]],
> even though it generates an error message.

Dave:

After reading many very helpful replies to this question (thank you 
all), I believe your answer is a bit off the mark since

Position[fInfo,
      x_ /; StringTake[x[[4]],1] == "L", {1},
       Heads->False]

gets rid of all error messages. See Espen's answer in this thread.

Thanks, though, for your interest and help.

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