Re: help with simple data transform
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- Subject: [mg37747] Re: help with simple data transform
- From: "Allan Hayes" <hay at haystack.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 05:10:05 -0500 (EST)
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Terrell,
dat={{n,n,n,n},{n,n,n,n,n,n},{n,n,n,n,n},{n,n}};
{First[#],Rest[#]}&/@dat
{{n,{n,n,n}},{n,{n,n,n,n,n}},{n,{n,n,n,n}},{n,{n}}}
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"Terrell Mitchell" <usenet at twocedars.mailshell.com> wrote in message
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> I am trying to help a friend at a University create some plots of his
> data. I have a trial version of Mathematica and it looks like it will
> do the job, but I need help with a simple problem.
>
> I have written some code to massage the data and put it in forms for
> reading into Mathematica.
>
> I will be doing a surface plot and want to provide can provide my own
> triangulation data.
>
> I will have data of the form
> n n n n
> n n n n n n
> n n n n n
> n n
> I can read this into lists and end up with
> {n,n,n,n},{n,n,n,n,n,n},{n,n,n,n,n},{n,n}
> I need to turn this into
> {n,{n,n,n}},{n,{n,n,n,n,n}},{n,{n,n,n,n}},{n,{n}}
> to use as the triangulation data.
>
> Can some kind soul provide me with some Mathematica code to transfrom my
> data into the proper format. There are so many features, there must be
> some simple transformation code.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
>
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> Terrell Mitchell
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