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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
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