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Re: Lists

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  • Subject: [mg4023] Re: [mg3881] Lists
  • From: "Paul R. Wellin" <wellin at telospub.com>
  • Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 02:13:58 -0400
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

> I have a two dimensional list (i.e. {{1, 23}, {2, 24}, {3, 25},
> {4, 26}}), and I want to remove all the first values in each pair
> of numbers. For instance, for the first pair, I want it to read
> {23}, and for the second, {24} instead of {2, 24}.
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.

How about this for simplicity. Here is a set of pairs of
integers:

In[3]:= data = Table[Random[Integer,{1,10}],{5},{2}]

Out[3]= {{10, 7}, {1, 8}, {3, 10}, {3, 7}, {1, 4}}


And this replaces each pair with only the second entry:

In[4]:= data /. {a_,b_} -> {b}

Out[4]= {{7}, {8}, {10}, {7}, {4}}


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