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Re: Need a functional process for this.

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  • Subject: [mg55618] Re: [mg55589] Need a functional process for this.
  • From: János <janos.lobb at yale.edu>
  • Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 01:24:22 -0500 (EST)
  • References: <200503300822.DAA21909@smc.vnet.net>
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On Mar 30, 2005, at 3:22 AM, Steve Gray wrote:

>     I have two lists, aa and bb. aa has the general form  
> {2,5,7,9,11,...}
> (or{{2},{5},{7},{9},{11},
> }}), and bb has the general form {{6,4},{9,2},{5,6},{3,8},
> }. If either
> the first or second element in any sublist (pair of integers) of bb  
> matches any element in aa, I
> want to delete that sublist from bb. In the above example, neither  
> member of {6,4} or {3,8} belongs
> to aa, while at least one element of {9,2} and {5,6} belongs to aa,  
> so bb becomes {{6,4},{3,8}}. If
> aa had only one element, for example 7, I could do bb=Delete 
> [bb,Position[bb,{x_,7}|{7,y_}]], but I
> don't know how to do it for several values instead of just "7"  
> without using a procedural loop.
>     What is a good functional way to do this?
>     Thank you for any tips.
>
> Steve Gray

I do not know if it is good or not but it is somewhat functional and  
100% pedagogical :)

In[1]:=
aa = Table[Random[Integer,
     {0, 9}], {i, 1, 10}]
Out[1]=
{8, 6, 9, 7, 9, 8, 5, 1, 9, 1}

In[2]:=
bb = Table[{Random[Integer,
      {0, 9}], Random[Integer,
      {0, 9}]}, {i, 1, 10}]
Out[2]=
{{9, 0}, {3, 3}, {9, 7},
   {2, 8}, {3, 3}, {3, 4},
   {3, 1}, {8, 5}, {4, 9},
   {5, 2}}

In[42]:=
Intersection[Pick[bb,
    Table[Position[aa,
       bb[[All,2]][[i]]] ==
      {}, {i, 1, Length[
       aa]}]], Pick[bb,
    Table[Position[aa,
       bb[[All,1]][[i]]] ==
      {}, {i, 1, Length[aa]}]]]
Out[42]=
{{3, 3}, {3, 4}}

János
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