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Re: Cases and Nonatomic expression

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• Subject: [mg56734] Re: [mg56718] Cases and Nonatomic expression
• From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
• Date: Thu, 5 May 2005 06:01:17 -0400 (EDT)
• References: <200505040434.AAA06285@smc.vnet.net>
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On 4 May 2005, at 13:34, Swati Shah wrote:

>
> Hi Everyone
>
> I have a list
> k = {{1,1,2,2,3}, {1,2,2,2,3}, {2,3,3,3,3}, {5,2,2,2,1}, {6,1,1,1,1},
> {6,1,1,1,1}}
>
> If the first element of the sublist is 1 I want to append the sublist 
> to
> g1, if it starts with 2 then append g2 or starts with 6 then append to 
> g6
>
> I used cases and did the following:
> m1 = Cases[k, {1, __}];
> m2 = Cases[k, {2, __}];
> m3 = Cases[k, {3, __}];
> m4 = Cases[k, {4, __}];
> m5 = Cases[k, {5, __}];
> m6 = Cases[k, {6, __}];
>
> However, instead of typing each one of these lines separately, it
> would be nice to use just a simple Map or something or a for loop (as
> I have more than 50 different start values)
>
> I tried the following 2 ways:
>
> a) using a for loopFor [i = 1, i < 7,
>   t = "g" <> ToString [i];
>   Print [t];
>   t = Cases [k, {i, __}];
>   Print [t]
>     i++]
>
> However outside the for loop the values of g1..g6 is empty.
>
> b) I tried using MAP (in the similar way as the for)
>
> But I get the following error:
> Append::normal: Nonatomic expression expected at position 1 in 
> Append[g1,{1, \
> 168, 0.695873, 6.54462, 62.4578, 82.5056}]
>
>
> Any suggestions as to how I can get this working?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Swati
>
>


One way:

In[1]:=
k = {{1,1,2,2,3}, {1,2,2,2,3}, {2,3,3,3,3}, {5,2,2,2,1}, {6,1,1,1,1},
{6,1,1,1,1}};

In[2]:=
With[{l=Split[k,#1[[1]]=#2[[1]]&]},Evaluate[
               ToExpression["m"<>ToString[#]]&/@Range[Length[l]]]=l];

Now

m1
{{1, 1, 2, 2, 3}, {1, 2, 2, 2, 3}}

etc.

But actually I can't see the point using names like m1 etc. You can 
make it all much simpler if instead you use m[1] etc.


Andrzej Kozlowski
Chiba, Japan
http://www.akikoz.net/andrzej/index.html
http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~akoz/

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    • From: Swati Shah <swatshah@gmail.com>