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Re: How to "search" in a matrix?

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  • Subject: [mg60904] Re: [mg60892] How to "search" in a matrix?
  • From: Bob Hanlon <hanlonr at cox.net>
  • Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 04:06:03 -0400 (EDT)
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matr={{a,b,1},{c,d,2},{e,f,3}};

To select all rows containing c

Select[matr, !FreeQ[#,c]&]

{{c, d, 2}}


Bob Hanlon

> 
> From: Renan <renan.birck at gmail.com>
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> Date: 2005/10/02 Sun AM 01:54:43 EDT
> Subject: [mg60904] [mg60892] How to "search" in a matrix?
> 
> I have this matrix:
> 
> matr = {{a, b, 1}, {c, d, 2}, {e, f, 3}}
> 
> I'm trying to do a "search" in a matrix. The "real" matrix will contain strings.
> How to "search" for a given value in a matrix and return all lines that have 
it?
> 
> 'Select' seems to handle only lists - and this would require a
> Flatten, probably making my code too complicated and maybe slow (the
> real matrix will contain something like 100 elements - weather data).
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 


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