Re: Obtaining sequences from lists of lists
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- Subject: [mg36236] Re: Obtaining sequences from lists of lists
- From: Bill Rowe <listuser at earthlink.net>
- Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 02:08:02 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
On 8/26/02 at 4:15 AM, rdobrow at carleton.edu (Bob) wrote: >If I have an n-element list, (say where each element is itself a >list), such as {{a,b}, {a,b}, {a,b}} is there a way to strip off the >outermost nesting of the list to obtain just a sequence of of these n >elements, that is {a,b},{a,b},{a,b} so that I can use this for input >for some function. Try Sequence@@ as in the following: In[1]:= x={{a,b},{a,b},{a,b}}; In[2]:= g[x_,y_,z_]:=x(y.z) In[3]:= g[Sequence@@x] Out[3]= \!\({a\ \((a\^2 + b\^2)\), b\ \((a\^2 + b\^2)\)}\)