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Re: Can't assign value to symbols

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  • Subject: [mg58434] Re: [mg58409] Can't assign value to symbols
  • From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
  • Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 04:06:46 -0400 (EDT)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Lee,

Set (=) has a higher precedence Than Function (&). So all you have to do is
add parentheses.

parameters = {{a, b, c}, {1, 2, 3}, {4, 5, 6}, {7, 8, 9}};

MapThread[(#1 = #2) & , {parameters[[1]], parameters[[3]]}]
{4, 5, 6}

David Park
djmp at earthlink.net
http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/

From: Lee Newman [mailto:leenewm at umich.edu]
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net


Hello,

Situation:  I have a table that contains parameters and sets of values
that I want to assign to the parameters for the purposes of running a
simulation.
- parameters = {{a,b,c},{1,2,3},{4,5,6},{7,8,9}}
- want to assign values in a given row to the symbols listed in the
first row.
- tried using:  MapThread[  #1 = #2 &, {parameters[[1]], parameters[[3]]} ]
- fails with error  "Tag Slot in #1 is Protected"
- tried adding Unprotect[#1] and a variety of other attemps, but can't
get it to work.

Anyone know how might accomplish this?

Thanks,
Lee




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