Re: Question about Replace
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- Subject: [mg35687] Re: [mg35670] Question about Replace
- From: BobHanlon at aol.com
- Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 04:16:28 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
In a message dated 7/25/02 5:06:57 AM, xzhang2 at is2.dal.ca writes: >I have an expression: x+y+z/(x+y)+e^(x+y)+w*x+y.... I want to replace >any (x+y) term by x no matter how the expression looks like. I tried >"/."command. However, it does not work properly. Is there any simple way >of doing this? Use ReplaceRepeated x+y+z/(x+y)+e^(x+y)+w*(x+y) //. x+y->x e^x + w*x + x + z/x Bob Hanlon Chantilly, VA USA