Re: Returning List Position w/o brackets
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- Subject: [mg29017] Re: [mg28990] Returning List Position w/o brackets
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <andrzej at tuins.ac.jp>
- Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 01:47:54 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
One way: use Extract instead of Part:
In[1]:=
letters = {a,b,c,d};
In[2]:=
numbers = {1,2,3,4};
In[3]:=
Extract[letters,Flatten[Position[numbers,2]]]
Out[3]=
b
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Andrzej Kozlowski
Toyama International University
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on 01.5.24 5:07 PM, brian at polar at cloud9.net wrote:
> Is there a way to have have the Position function return a value without
> the brackets.
>
> Say there are two lists,
> letter = {a,b,c,d} and number = {1,2,3,4}
>
> If I call letter[[2]] I get b
> but if I use letter[[ Flatten[ Position[ number, 2 ] ]
> ]] I get {b}
>
> I have several large lists that I am searching through and then
> need to print out the values and I would like to have the brackets
> removed from the text reports. I hve tried several different methods
> but nothing seems to work.
>
> Thank for any help Brian
>
>
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