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Re: help with simple data transform

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  • Subject: [mg37794] Re: [mg37734] help with simple data transform
  • From: Sseziwa Mukasa <mukasa at jeol.com>
  • Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 01:11:11 -0500 (EST)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

On Sunday, November 10, 2002, at 05:38 AM, Terrell Mitchell wrote:

>
> 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.
>
>

The following will take a list and put the remainder into a sublist

f[x_List]:={First[x],Rest[x]}

Regards,

Ssezi



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