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Re: Simple Question -- Incrementing All Elemnts in A list by 1

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• Subject: [mg44339] Re: Simple Question -- Incrementing All Elemnts in A list by 1
• From: "Eckhard Hennig" <aidev at n-o-s-p-a-m.kaninkolo.de>
• Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 10:01:55 -0500 (EST)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Thiery Balser" <thiery.balser at gmx.net>
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Subject: [mg44339] Simple Question -- Incrementing All Elemnts in A list by 1

> I would like to have all elements in a list incremted by a given number
> without defining a supplementary function.
>
> What I've done so far is:
>
> incFunc[n_]:=n+1;
> Map[incFunc,{2,3,4,45,98}]
>
> which is all fine. It is only that I'm looking for a solution _without_
> defining the mentioned function incFunc.

You can do this with a pure function (look up "Function" in the help
browser):

In[1]:= # + 1 & /@ {2, 3, 4, 45, 98}

Out[1]= {3, 4, 5, 46, 99}

Best regards,

Eckhard

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Dr.-Ing. Eckhard Hennig
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aidev \at kaninkolo \dot de



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