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RE: Question about Replace

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg35696] RE: [mg35670] Question about Replace
• From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
• Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 04:16:44 -0400 (EDT)
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Heather,

It works.

x + y + z/(x + y) + e^(x + y) + w*x + y /. x + y -> x
e^x + x + w*x + 2*y + z/x

Since you wrote w*x + y and not w*(x+y) Mathematica simplified to obtain x +
2y so there is no replacement there.

But generally you will have to use ReplaceRepeated (//.).

x + y + z/(x + y) + e^(x + y) + w*(x + y) //. x + y -> x
e^x + x + w*x + z/x

David Park
djmp at earthlink.net
http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/



From: Xuguang Zhang [mailto:xzhang2 at is2.dal.ca]
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net


Hello All,

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? Thanks.

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Xuguang(Heather) Zhang