Re: How to Return from within a Table[]-Command?
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- Subject: [mg33766] Re: How to Return from within a Table[]-Command?
- From: "Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 02:14:54 -0400 (EDT)
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Detlef,
Return only returns from certain constructs, and Table is not one of these.
I suggest using Throw and Catch:
Divide2[L_List]:=
Module[{},
Table[If[IntegerQ[L[[i]]],i/2,Throw["vector not valid."]],{i,1,
Length[L]}]
]//Catch
Divide2[{2,3,a,5}]
vector not valid.
The story on Return is
If Return[x] is generated as a value in Do or Scan then x is immediately
returned;
If Return[x] is generated as an entry in CompoundExpression or as a value
of the body of a While or For loop then Return[x] (not x) is immediately
returned;
If Return[x] is generated as the value of a user-defined function then the
function returns x (not Return[x])
Otherwise Return[x] behaves as a ordinary expression.
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Allan
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"Detlef Mueller" <dmueller at mathematik.uni-kassel.de> wrote in message
news:a90goo$kdb$1 at smc.vnet.net...
> Hello,
>
> I wanted to scan trough al List, building a new
> List, but aborting, if one Element of the first
> List violates a special Condition ...
> say for example:
>
> Divide2[L_List] := Module[{},
> Table[
> If[IntegerQ[L[[i]]],
> i/2,
> Return["vector not valid."];
> ]
> , {i, 1, Length[L]}
> ]
>
> ...
>
> ]
>
> But this results:
>
> In[13]:= Divide2[{2,3,a}]
> Out[13]= {1/2, 1, Return["vector not valid."]}
>
> Wich is of course not what I want.
>
> Greetings
>
> Detlef
>