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Re: Problem with matching.

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  • Subject: [mg53918] Re: [mg53907] Problem with matching.
  • From: DrBob <drbob at bigfoot.com>
  • Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 04:11:13 -0500 (EST)
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I think it's because the two a_ patterns aren't treated as representing the same a.

But this works:

F[{x, 2, c}]*F[{x, 1, f}] /. F[{___, a_, ___}]*F[{___, b_, ___}] /; a == b :> yes

yes

Bobby

On Wed, 2 Feb 2005 18:10:51 -0500 (EST), Josef Karthauser <joe at tao.org.uk> wrote:

> Can someone tell me why this doesn't match?
>
> F[{x, 2, c}]F[{x, 1, f}] /. F[{___, a_, ___}]F[{___, a_, ___}] :> yes
>
> I'm expecting 'yes' to be returned if any of the list arguments to F[]
> contain the same value.  It doesn't match however; what am I doing
> wrong?
>
> Thanks,
> Joe
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