Re: Mapping a scalar against a list
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- Subject: [mg28400] Re: Mapping a scalar against a list
- From: "Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 03:28:51 -0400 (EDT)
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Mark,
We can ignore, or turn off, the message generated below.
In[6]:=
Thread[StringMatchQ["ab",{"aab", "bb", "ab"}]]
StringMatchQ::string: String expected at position 2 in \
StringMatchQ[ab,{aab,bb,ab}].
Out[6]=
{False,False,True}
Here's another way of avoiding the message:
In[7]:=
Block[{StringMatchQ},Thread[StringMatchQ["ab",{"aab", "bb", "ab"}]]
]
Out[7]=
{False,False,True}
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Allan
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"Mark Coleman" <mcoleman at bondspace.com> wrote in message
news:9bb7q7$969 at smc.vnet.net...
> Greetings,
>
> I've recently been working on a problem involving determining whether a
> given string is contained in a large list of strings. Ideally, the problem
> would be solved by a 'Map' function 'M' defined as
>
> M[f,{a,{b,c,d,...}}]= {f[a,b],f[a,c],f[a,d],...}
>
> For this particular problem, {a} is a stiring, and {b,c,d,...} is a list
of
> strings, then f=StringMatchQ. The function 'M' does not appear to match up
> against the standard Mathematica list functions. My current solution is to
'expand'
> the list {a} into a list of size Dimension[{b,c,d,...}] and then use
> MapThread. But this does not seem particularly elegant, especially if the
> list is very large.
>
> Any suggestions would be most welcome!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
>
>