Re: Best code to match corresponding list items?
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- Subject: [mg27773] Re: Best code to match corresponding list items?
- From: "Ian McInnes" <ian at whisper-wood.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 04:07:26 -0500 (EST)
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C = Transpose[{A, B}]
Regards,
Ian.
"Roger Ison" <rison at ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:98kobb$pp6 at smc.vnet.net...
> Given two lists
> A={a1,a2,a3,...}
> B={b1,b2,b3...}
>
> I want to produce the list
> C={ {a1,b1}, {a2,b2}, {a3,b3}...} }
> as efficiently as possible.
> Better yet, generalize to do this with N lists all of same length.
>
> Obviously it can be done directly with Table, but is there a more elegant,
> implicit way to write it that doesn't involve passing a function to Table
> and using an explicit index? Is there a general functional primitive for
> this that I simply haven't found? Seems like something so common, there
> ought to be a built-in function for it.
>
> Thanks,
> Roger
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