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Re: "expanding a list"

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  • Subject: [mg57897] Re: "expanding a list"
  • From: Jean-Marc Gulliet <jeanmarc.gulliet at 9online.fr>
  • Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 04:34:18 -0400 (EDT)
  • Organization: New York University
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  • Reply-to: jmg336 at nyu.edu
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Mark Coleman wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I'd like to construct a list as follows. Say I have a list of reals  
> {x1,x2,x3,...xn}, and another list of integers {r,s}. I'd like to  
> make a new list
> 
> {{x1,x1,x1,...},{x2,x2,x2....},{x3,x3,x3,...},....,{xn,xn,xn,...}},  
> where the first sublist is of length r, and the remaining sublists  
> are of length s.

Hi Mark,

I think the following lines do the trick (first we create some data, 
then we define a function called "listExpand"):

In[1]:=
data = {1.02, 5.7, 3.987, 4.212, 9.11}

Out[1]=
{1.02,5.7,3.987,4.212,9.11}

In[2]:=
listExpand[L_, r_, s_] := FlattenAt[{Table[L[[1]], {r}],
      (Table[#1, {s}] & ) /@ Rest[L]}, 2];

In[3]:=
listExpand[data, 3, 5]

Out[3]=
{{1.02,1.02,1.02},{5.7,5.7,5.7,5.7,5.7},{3.987,3.987,
     3.987,3.987,3.987},{4.212,4.212,4.212,4.212,4.212},{
     9.11,9.11,9.11,9.11,9.11}}

Best regards,
/J.M.


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