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Re: joining lists.

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  • Subject: [mg23764] Re: [mg23739] joining lists.
  • From: Andrzej Kozlowski <andrzej at tuins.ac.jp>
  • Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 02:59:11 -0400 (EDT)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

I don't think there is a named function that will do just what you want, but
you can always use {##} &, e.g.

In[20]:=
{##} &[{1, 2, 3}, {4, 5, 6}, {a, b, c, d}]
Out[20]=
{{1, 2, 3}, {4, 5, 6}, {a, b, c, d}}




on 6/5/00 2:09 PM, Otto Linsuain at linsuain+ at andrew.cmu.edu wrote:

> 
> 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.
> 



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