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Re: removing subelements

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  • Subject: [mg56119] Re: removing subelements
  • From: Jon Harrop <usenet at jdh30.plus.com>
  • Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 03:51:52 -0400 (EDT)
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borges2003xx at yahoo.it wrote:

> i'm a newbie. How implement the _faster functon_ which removes in a
> list every element that are a subelement.
> which means
> f[x]:=  {..,{1,2,3,4},..,{2,3},..} removes {2,3}.

I'm not exactly sure what you're after but Complement[...] may do the trick:

In[1]:= Complement[{1,2,3,4}, {2,3}]
Out[1]= {1, 4}

-- 
Dr Jon D Harrop, Flying Frog Consultancy
http://www.ffconsultancy.com


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