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Replacement Rule

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  • Subject: [mg32064] Replacement Rule
  • From: bghiggins at ucdavis.edu (Brian Higgins)
  • Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 03:57:42 -0500 (EST)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

I have the following list

l1={{1,2},{3,4},{5,6}};

and then I operate on it with the following pattern/replacement rule

In[3]:= l1 /. {x_, y_} -> x

Out[3]= {1, 3, 5}

This is what I would expect. Now consider the following list

In[4]:= l2 = {{3, 4}, {5, 6}};

Then I use the same pattern/replacement rule 

In[5]:=l2 /. {x_, y_} -> x

Out[5]= {3, 4}

I was hoping to get

{3,5}

What am I missing? The FullForm of l2 is basically the same structure
as l1, as far as I can tell....

Brian


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