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Re: joining lists.

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg23791] Re: joining lists.
• From: "Seth Chandler" <SChandler at uh.edu>
• Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 02:59:41 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: University of Houston
• References: <8hff2o$ht9@smc.vnet.net>
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

The function you need is the List function itself.

List[list1,list2]


Seth J. Chandler


"Otto Linsuain" <linsuain+ at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote in message
news:8hff2o$ht9 at smc.vnet.net...
>
>     hi all, this should be simple.
>
>     I got:
>
>     list1={ some numbers }
>
>     list2={ some other numbers }
>
>     Append[list1,list2] gives me { some numbers, { some other numbers } }
>
>     Join[list1,list2]   gives me { some numbers, some other numbers }
>
>     I want { { some numbers }, { some other numbers } }
>
>
>     Actually I have found that:
>
>     Join[{list1},{list2}] does what I want but I don't find it very
elegant.
>
>     I can live with the lack of elegance, but I wonder if there is some
> other function or construction (for joining lists) that I am not aware
> of.
>
>     Thanks in advance. Otto Linsuain.
>