Re: Returning List Position w/o brackets
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- Subject: [mg29011] Re: Returning List Position w/o brackets
- From: "Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 01:47:50 -0400 (EDT)
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Brian,
letter = {a,b,c,d};number = {1,2,3,4};
letter[[ Flatten[Position[ number, 2 ] ]]][[1]]
b
letter[[Sequence@@ Flatten[Position[ number, 2 ] ]]]
b
letter[[Position[ number, 2 ][[1,1]] ]]
b
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Allan
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"brian" <polar at cloud9.net> wrote in message news:9eigli$512 at smc.vnet.net...
> 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
>
>