Re: Assigning to a sublist
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- Subject: [mg35182] Re: Assigning to a sublist
- From: "Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2002 02:31:49 -0400 (EDT)
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Bob,
zz={{2,{{1,1}}},{10,{{3,1}}},{5,{{2,1}}}};
zz[[3,2]] (*not zz[[3]][[2]]*) = Append[zz[[3]][[2]],{1,1,1,1,1}];
zz[[3,2]]
{{2,1},{1,1,1,1,1}}
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Allan
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"Bob Harris" <nitlion at mindspring.com> wrote in message
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> Howdy,
>
> I'm trying to assign a new value to an entry in a sublist (of another
list),
> and I can't understand why it won't work.
>
> For example, I do the following:
>
> In[1]:= zz = {{2, {{1, 1}}}, {10, {{3, 1}}}, {5, {{2, 1}}}}
> Out[1]= {{2, {{1, 1}}}, {10, {{3, 1}}}, {5, {{2, 1}}}}
>
> In[2]:= zz[[3]][[2]]
> Out[2]= {{2, 1}}
>
> In[3]:= Append[zz[[3]][[2]], {1, 1, 1, 1, 1}]
> Out[3]= {{2, 1}, {1, 1, 1, 1, 1}}
>
> In[4]:= zz[[3]][[2]] = Append[zz[[3]][[2]], {1, 1, 1, 1, 1}]
> Set::"setps : zz[[3]] in assignment of part is not a symbol."
> Out[4]= {{2, 1}, {1, 1, 1, 1, 1}}
>
> For some reason it doesn't like the assignment. What confuses me is that
is
> zz[[3]][[2]] were just a variable, it would work. Further, if it were
just
> an entry at the *top* level of a list, it would work, as this example
shows:
>
> In[5]:= yy = zz[[3]]
> Out[5]= {5, {{2, 1}}}
>
> In[6]:= yy[[2]]
> Out[6]= {{2, 1}}
>
> In[7]:= yy[[2]] = Append[yy[[2]], {1, 1, 1, 1, 1}]
> Out[7]= {{2, 1}, {1, 1, 1, 1, 1}}
>
> So it seems like the issue is just that deeply nested things don't behave
> like things that are not as deeply nested. Am I right about that? How
can
> I modify an entry in a sublist?
>
> Thanks,
> Bob H
>
>