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Re: Testing the Head of List Elements

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  • Subject: [mg25232] Re: [mg25200] Testing the Head of List Elements
  • From: Andrzej Kozlowski <andrzej at tuins.ac.jp>
  • Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 04:47:11 -0400 (EDT)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Here is probably the most natural way:

In[1]:=
ls = {dog, "dog", 1, Pi}

Out[1]=
{dog, "dog", 1, Pi}

In[2]:=
Cases[ls, _String] // InputForm

Out[2]//InputForm=
{"dog"}

on 00.9.15 3:21 PM, Marshall Bartlett at mgb_news at hotmail.com wrote:

> I'm something of a newbie with Mathematica; please excuse my ignorance.
> 
> I am looking for a clever way to select elements from a list based on their
> type (Head).  Specifically, I want to extract all the elements of type
> dtring from a list of elements of different types (string, number,
> character, etc.).
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> --
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> Marshall Bartlett
> Department of Geology and Geophysics
> University of Utah
> mgb_news at hotmail.com
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> 

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Andrzej Kozlowski
Toyama International University
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