Re: Re: Using Select with arrays? (Relative newbie)
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- Subject: [mg54244] Re: Re: Using Select with arrays? (Relative newbie)
- From: Hugo Mallinson <hfm21 at cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:50:36 -0500 (EST)
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Thanks very much! My typos didn't help matters (the strings were actually strings, I just left out the quotes to simplify things..or so I thought). This appears to be more efficient than what I eventually came up with: Select[data, #[[1]]==1 && #[[4]]=="string"] and then a separate Max[] call. Hugo On Feb 14, 2005, at 5:57 AM, Curt Fischer wrote: > Hugo Mallinson wrote: >> The subject might not be entirely correct, but here is my problem: >> >> I have a list of 5-variable data points like >> >> data = { >> {1, 1, string1, c, d} >> {1, 2, string2, c, d} >> {1, 3, string3, c, d} >> {1, 4, string4, c, d} >> {2, 1, string1, c, d} >> {2, 2, string2, c, d} >> {3, 1, string3, c, d} >> {4, 1, string2, c, d} >> {4, 2, string4, c, d} >> } >> >> >> and I want to extract just the points that have 1 (or 2, etc) as their >> first value. I think I should do something like >> >> Select[data, {1, _Integer, _String, _Integer, _Integer}] >> >> but that doesn't work. > > None of your data matches the pattern you made. When you enter things > like string2 or c or d into Mathematica without quotation marks, they > are not strings or integers. You can easily find out what Mathematica > thinks they are. > > In[1]:= > data = {{1, 1, > string1, c, d} , {1, 2, string2, c, d}, {1, 3, > string3, c, d}, {1, 4, string4, c, d} , {2, 1, > string1, c, d}, {2, 2, string2, c, d}, {3, 1, > string3, c, d} , {4, 1, string2, c, d}, {4, 2, string4, c, d}}; > > In[2]:= > Map[Head, data, {2}] > Out[2]= > {{Integer, Integer, Symbol, Symbol, Symbol}, {Integer, Integer, Symbol, > Symbol, Symbol}, { > Integer, Integer, Symbol, Symbol, Symbol}, {Integer, Integer, > Symbol, > Symbol, Symbol}, { > Integer, Integer, Symbol, Symbol, Symbol}, {Integer, Integer, > Symbol, > Symbol, Symbol}, { > Integer, Integer, Symbol, Symbol, Symbol}, {Integer, Integer, > Symbol, > Symbol, Symbol}, {Integer, Integer, Symbol, Symbol, Symbol}} > > That is, they are all Symbols. We can re-write your pattern to be more > flexible and we can use Cases[] instead of Select[]. (IME Cases[] is > easier to figure out.) > > In[3]:= > Cases[data, {1, _Integer, _, _, _}] > Out[3]= > {{1, 1, string1, c, d}, {1, 2, string2, c, d}, { > 1, 3, string3, c, d}, {1, 4, string4, c, d}} > > So that gets you the preliminary result. But you want to extract the > member of this list that has the maximal second element. > >> Having done that I need to find the maximum value of #2 for each >> string, which I presumably do by the same method as above to extract >> all string1 (or ...2) and then use Map[] and Max[]. I would do this >> all >> with For loops (revealing my lack of Mathematica chops :-) ) but I'd >> really like to learn how to do this sort of extraction in a >> Mathematica-y way. Any help would be greatly appreciated! > > Let's say you want to know the maximum integer that occurs in slot #2 > for all of the data that contain string3. > > In[4]:= > Max[Part[#,2]&/@Cases[data,{_Integer,_Integer, string3,_,_}]] > > Out[4]= > 3 > > This code extracts the second part from all of the list elements that > match {_Integer, _Integer, string3, _,_} and finds the maximum value > thereof. > -- > Curt Fischer >
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