Re: Counting Elements in a List
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- Subject: [mg27970] Re: Counting Elements in a List
- From: "Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 01:26:07 -0500 (EST)
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John:
mylist = {{1, 2, 3, 4}, {1, 2, 3, 5}, {1, 3, 4, 6}, {1, 3, 6, 9}, {2, 4,
7,8}};
Count[mylist, x_/;x[[4]]>5]
3
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"JOHN C ERB" <JOHN_C_ERB at prodigy.net> wrote in message
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> I have a list in which I want to count the number of times the 4th element
> (i.e., 4th column) meets certain specifications (e.g., where it greater
than
> or equal to 8).
>
> I can do this by:
>
> mylist = {{1, 2, 3, 4}, {1, 2, 3, 5}, {1, 3, 4, 6}, {1, 3, 6, 9}, {2, 4,
7,
> 8}};
> Length[Select[mylist, #[[4]] >= 8 &]]
>
> Surely, there is another, more direct, way of doing this using Count?
>
>
> Thank you,
>
> John C. Erb
>
> email: John_C_Erb at prodigy.net
>
>