Re: Obtaining sequences from lists of lists
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- Subject: [mg36219] Re: Obtaining sequences from lists of lists
- From: Alexander Dreyer <dreyer at itwm.fhg.de>
- Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2002 02:07:28 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Fraunhofer ITWM
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Bob wrote: > > Can anyone help me with this problem. > > 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. > > I would like to do something like > Outer[SomeFunction, Table[{a,b},{N} ]] where I can enter N > dynamically. > The problem, of course, is that the output of the Table command is one > big list > and Outer is expecting a sequence of N separate lists after > SomeFunction. > > Thanks for your help in advance. Hi, Sequence@@{{a,b}, {a,b}, {a,b}} resp. Apply[Sequence, {{a,b}, {a,b}, {a,b}}] will do it. CU, Alexander -- / Alexander Dreyer, Dipl.-Math. - Abteilung Adaptive Systeme \ / Fraunhofer Institut fuer Techno- und Wirtschaftsmathematik (ITWM) \ \ Gottlieb-Daimler-Strasse, Geb. 7^2=49/313 D-67663 Kaiserslautern / \ http://www.itwm.fhg.de Tel.:(0631)205-2851 Fax:(0631)205-4139 /