Re: ReplaceAll in If Statement
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- Subject: [mg19480] Re: ReplaceAll in If Statement
- From: paulh at wolfram.com (P.J. Hinton)
- Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 15:53:08 -0400
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In article <7q20sl$q9i at smc.vnet.net>, "Tom Compton" <comptont at concentric.net> writes:
>In the following sequence I expected z to evaluate to 1 in the
>Module. It appears that the test in the module does not
>evaluate to either True or False. I don't understand why.
>Can anyone explain?
>
>In[1]:=
>opList={a->True};
>
>In[2]:=
>test[opts___]:=Module[{},
>If[a /. {opts}, z=1, z=2, z=3];
>{a, z} /. {opts}]
>
>In[3]:=
>test[opList]
>Out[3]=
>{{True,3}}
The fail case happens because your True is wrapped within a List.
In[1]:= opList={a->True}
Out[1]= {a -> True}
In[2]:= test[opts___]:=Module[{}, a /. {opts}]
In[3]:= test[opList]
Out[3]= {True}
Pulling out the True from the list should fix the problem.
In[4]:= test[opts___]:=Module[{},
If[First[a /. {opts}], z=1, z=2, z=3];
{a, z} /. {opts}]
In[5]:= test[opList]
Out[5]= {{True, 1}}
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P.J. Hinton
Mathematica Programming Group paulh at wolfram.com
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