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Re: arrange lists side by side

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  • Subject: [mg56681] Re: [mg56538] arrange lists side by side
  • From: John Kiehl <john.kiehl at soundtrackny.com>
  • Date: Tue, 3 May 2005 05:26:33 -0400 (EDT)
  • Reply-to: John Kiehl <john.kiehl at soundtrackny.com>
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Somehow, my post from yesterday didn't include the actual line of Mathematica code. So here it is again.

Your problem immediately made me think of using MapIndexed[ ] which uses a second parameter (#2) to refer to the position of each element that's being Mapped onto.  I use that position information to refer to the appropriate member of the shorter list. ( There's an inelegant  detail with subtracting 1 inside the Mod[ ] and adding 1 outside the Mod[ ], as well as needing Sequence[] to get the bracketing as desired, but I've grown use to these details with MapIndexed[ ]. )

So, using your a and b as defined:

In[] = MapIndexed[{#,  Sequence @@ a[[ Mod[#2-1,Length[a]] +1]] }&, b ]

john kiehl

On Thursday, April 28, 2005 2:40 AM, marloo3 at mail15.com wrote:
>Hi
>is there a way to spread out a small list over a bigger list recurrently like 
>this:
>a={28, 30, 17};
>b={1, 2, 9, 4, 5, 7, 3, 8};
>to give the output:
>{{1,28},{2,30},{9,17},{4,28},{5,30},{7,17},{3,28},{8,30}};
>the number of items in "b" do not neccesary  multiples of the number of items 
>in "a"
>mark
>
>okay this is my approach
>
>a={28,30,17};
>b={1,2,9,4,5,7,3,8};
>aa={};aa=Table[Join[aa,a],{i,Length[b]/Length[a]}]
>
>Out[]=
>{{28,30,17},{28,30,17}}
>
>frc=Mod[Length[b],Length[a]];
>gg=Flatten[Join[aa,Part[a,{1,frc}]]];
>Transpose[Join[{b},{gg}]]
>
>Out[]=
>{{1,28},{2,30},{9,17},{4,28},{5,30},{7,17},{3,28},{8,30}}
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>
>



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