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Re: Pattern of a List of Pairs

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  • Subject: [mg20889] Re: Pattern of a List of Pairs
  • From: "DIAMOND Mark" <noname at noname.com>
  • Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 01:07:04 -0500 (EST)
  • Organization: The University of Western Australia
  • References: <812ajv$1hc@smc.vnet.net>
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hans Steffani wrote in message <812ajv$1hc at smc.vnet.net>...
>I need a function wich gets a list of pairs. How do I build
>the head of this function.
>

It is not clear exactly what you mean. Do you mean that you want the
function header for a function which will ONLY accept a list of pairs of
numbers, in which case something like

f[ xypairs:{{_Real,_Real}..}] :=

will give you what you want. This
checks for a list of one or more pairs of real numbers. Changing to three
dots

f[ xypairs:{{_Real,_Real}...}] :=

will accept an empty list

Changing to

f[ xypairs:{{_?NumericQ, _?NumericQ}..}] :=

will check for numeric values, not necessarily real. Look at the
documentation for  Pattern (and related words and headings) in the master
index.







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