Re: simple set operations
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- Subject: [mg57681] Re: [mg57635] simple set operations
- From: "Barthelet, Luc" <lucb at ea.com>
- Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 03:04:28 -0400 (EDT)
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I posted an answer at http://www.mathematica-users.org:8080/webMathematica/wiki/wiki.jsp?pageN ame=FAQ_Lists Where you can also download the code. Luc -----Original Message----- From: Edward Peschko [mailto:esp5 at pge.com] To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net Subject: [mg57681] [mg57635] simple set operations hey all, I'm hesitant to ask these questions (because they are so simple) but after a 15 minute search through the docs I'm getting nowhere, so here goes: 1) what's the easiest way to generate a list of elements? ie: 'a' .. 'h' == { a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h } 2) Is there a quick way to check whether an element is in a set? if ('a' == (any('a','b','c','d')) { print "a is in a,b,c,d"; } The first one I see could possibly be done by 'Array', but I don't see how - the '#' refers to the generation of numbers, but there seems to be no corresponding 'letter' symbol. As for #2, the easiest way would be through an overloading of the = '==' operator, but again, that doesn't seem to work.. Thanks much for any help, Ed