labeling problem
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- Subject: [mg46430] labeling problem
- From: Janos <janos.lobb at yale.edu>
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 00:36:53 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Before I re-invent the wheel let me ask: I need to assign names to list elements in a nested list based upon their position in the nested list. For example if I have a list: lst = {{a,b},{c,d},e,f,{g,h,i},j,k,{l.m},{n,o,p},q,{r,s},{{t}}} then pos=Position[lst,{_,_,_}] will give me {{5}.{9}} Now, I am thinking to assign a unique name to the list elements on these positions, like p5={g,h,i} and p9={n,o,p}. I did not find yet how to create variable names with concatenation auto-magically from program. In other programming languages I can do something like this: var="p"+NumToString[5] &var={a,b,c} and I could refer to it afterward as p5 and its value would be {a,b,c}. The most handy would be if I could take just the name of the position and assign that to it, like: For[i=1, i<=Length[pos], i++, NumberToName[pos[[i]]]=lst[[pos[[i]] ]] ] and I would get: five={g,h,i} and nine={n,o,p}. Of course lst[[pos[[i]] ]] where' i' goes from 1 to 2 is somewhat doing it but it is a little bit complicated. I looked the book and the online documentation but could not find a function called NumberToName which would do NumberToName[5] five and vice versa NameToNumber[five] 5 Is there such function or procedure in someone's drawer ? If not, then what is the right way to get a unique variable name with some clear deterministic nature - like above - from Mathematica ? Thanks ahead, János ------------------------------------------ "There was a mighty king in the land of the Huns whose goodness and wisdom had no equal." Nibelungen-Lied