Re: Sorting nested list
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- Subject: [mg57361] Re: Sorting nested list
- From: "meznaric" <meznaric at gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 06:03:11 -0400 (EDT)
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- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
You should probably use pattern matching. For example for your list:
lst = {{a, {2, 4, 1}}, {b, {3.2, -2}}};
lst//. {a___, {b_, c_List /; ! OrderedQ[c, Less]}, d___} :> {a, {b,
Sort[c]}, d}
You can basically set up a transformation rule for any such structured
list.
Sebastjan