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}} -- Allan --------------------- Allan Hayes Mathematica Training and Consulting Leicester UK www.haystack.demon.co.uk hay at haystack.demon.co.uk Voice: +44 (0)116 271 4198 Fax: +44 (0)870 164 0565 "Bob Harris" <nitlion at mindspring.com> wrote in message news:afe4lv$h2h$1 at smc.vnet.net... > 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 > >