Re: Position function
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- Subject: [mg55579] Re: [mg55549] Position function
- From: DrBob <drbob at bigfoot.com>
- Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 03:21:16 -0500 (EST)
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a = {{1, 3, 1, 2, 1}, {5, 6, 1, 1, 3, 1}}
Position[a, 1]
Split[%, #1[[1]] == #2[[1]] &]
Last /@ Transpose /@ %
{{1,3,1,2,1},{5,6,1,1,3,1}}
{{1,1},{1,3},{1,5},{2,3},{2,4},{2,6}}
{{{1,1},{1,3},{1,5}},{{2,3},{2,4},{2,6}}}
{{1,3,5},{3,4,6}}
Position[a,1][[All,2]]
{1,3,5,3,4,6}
Bobby
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 03:42:32 -0500 (EST), <konstantpi at mail15.com> wrote:
> suppose i have a List:
> a={{1,3,1,2,1},{5,6,1,1,3,1}}
> how i could know the positions of "1" in every sublist , i could use Position[a
> [[1]],1] and Position[a[[2]],1]
> but i want a one formula to give me {{1,3,5},{3,4,6}}
>
> the second question:
> using Position[a,1] will give:
> {{1, 1}, {1, 3}, {1, 5}, {2, 3}, {2, 4}, {2, 6}}
> in general how to extract only the second item from every sublist so the output
> will be;
> {1,3,5,3,4,6}
> thanks
> konst.
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DrBob at bigfoot.com
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