RE: Converting {{a,b},{c,d}} to just {a,b},{c,d} (no enclosing parens) ?
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- Subject: [mg28776] RE: [mg28766] Converting {{a,b},{c,d}} to just {a,b},{c,d} (no enclosing parens) ?
- From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
- Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 20:18:10 -0400 (EDT)
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This is a place where you want to use Sequence.
list = {{a, b}, {c, d}, {e, f}};
Line[{{0, 0}, {0, 1}, Sequence @@ list, {1, 1}, {1, 2}}]
Line[{{0, 0}, {0, 1}, {a, b}, {c, d}, {e, f}, {1, 1}, {1, 2}}]
David Park
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> From: aes [mailto:siegman at stanford.edu]
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
>
> How can I convert a list of pairs, like
>
> {{a,b},{c,d},{e,f},. . . }}
>
> into just a sequence of pairs, i.e.
>
> {a,b}, {c,d}, {e,f}, . . .
>
> with no outer { }'s?
>
> Reason for doing this? Want to define a Line in the form
>
> Line[{pt1, pt2, pt3, pt4, pt5, pt6, . . . . . . }]
>
> where some of the points, say pt1 through pt4 are individually defined;
> but then a sequence, say pt5 through pt20, are defined by a Table; then
> pt21, etc are back to individual definitions.
>
> I know -- I could break these into a sequence of Lines -- but it would
> be cleaner if there were a simple way to have one Line[ ] command with
> all the points inside it.
>