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Re: ReplacePart?



Scott Morrison wrote:
> 
> I have a list of pairs of the form:
> gt={{3,5},{{},6},{7,{}},{{},{}},{{},56},{{},3}};
> 
> The empty lists inside pairs are being used as placeholders. I want to
> replace these with the elements of b: b={a1,a2,a3,a4,a5,a6};
> hopefully resulting in the list
> {{3,5},{a1,6},{7,a2},{a3,a4},{a5,56},{a6,3}}
> 
> I had thought that ReplacePart could do this, as it says:
> "ReplacePart[expr, new, pos, npos] replaces parts at positions pos in
> expr by
>   parts at positions npos in new."
> 
> I can't get this to work at all. If someone could explain how to do this
> sort of thing, using ReplacePart or otherwise, I would be most
> grateful.
> 
> Scott Morrison
> scott@morrison.fl.net.au

Scott:

gt={{3,5},{{},6},{7,{}},{{},{}},{{},56},{{},3}};

b={a1,a2,a3,a4,a5,a6};

n=1;gt//.{}:> b[[n++]]

{{3,5},{a1,6},{7,a2},{a3,a4},{a5,56},{a6,3}}

The following gives more control

n=1;Apply[(gt[[##]] = b[[n++]])&,Position[gt,{}],{1}];

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