Re: Position different in 5.0 and 5.1?
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- Subject: [mg56081] Re: Position different in 5.0 and 5.1?
- From: "Jens-Peer Kuska" <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2005 04:47:14 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi,
do you mean
Position[{"asd", "dsa"}, x_String /;
(StringTake[x, 1] == "a")]
??
Regards
Jens
"J R Gog" <jrg20 at cam.ac.uk> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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>
> I've recently upgraded from 5.1 from 5.0 and
> have found that some of my old
> notebooks don't seem to work. I think I have the
> essence of what I'm utterly
> confussed about in this example:
> Position[{"asd", "dsa"}, x_ /; (StringTake[x, 1]
> == "a")]
>
> What I want is the position of list entries
> which have first character "a".
> In 5.0, this line works. In 5.1, I get an error
> that StringTake is being fed
> a string.
>
> I can't find any documentation that explains
> what has changed to have this
> effect. I'm sure I've missed something obvious,
> but if anyone can explain to
> me what has changed, it would be very helpful
> indeed. I know I can do
> everything some other way, but I need to know
> exactly what old stuff I need
> to change!
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Julia Gog
>
>