Re: Symbols and Lists
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- Subject: [mg39899] Re: Symbols and Lists
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2003 02:36:07 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Universitaet Leipzig
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Hi,
nobody knows what symbol should have the i-th value of you second list
When the lists have the same length
ss = {a, b, c, d, e, f, g};
dd = {1, 5, {3, 4}, 7, abc, {0.1, 0.001}, 3.1415};
Set @@@ Transpose[{ss, dd}]
work fine
Regards
Jens
Goyder Dr HGD wrote:
>
> Dear MathGroup,
>
> I am doing something much more complicated but this trivial example
> expresses my difficulty.
>
> If I have a list of symbols and a list of data such as
>
> ss = {a, b, c, d, e}
>
> dd = {1, 5, {3, 4}, 7, abc, {0.1, 0.001}, 3.1415}
>
> how do I take a symbol from the list ss and associated it with data from the
> list dd?
>
> A wrong attempt is to try
>
> ss[[3]] = dd[[4]]
>
> This replaces element 3 in ss with element 4 from dd.
>
> What I need is an assignment so that, in this case, the symbol c is
> associated with the data. Equivalent to writing
>
> c = dd[[4]]
>
> so that c could then be used in subsequent expressions and the list ss is
> unchanged.
>
> Note that this is a trivial example for pedagogic purposes - I can't do the
> simple assignment in my actual case.
>
> Thanks
>
> Hugh Goyder