Re: perplexed by blank sequence in pattern replacement
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- Subject: [mg68745] Re: perplexed by blank sequence in pattern replacement
- From: "J Siehler" <jsiehler at gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 03:11:45 -0400 (EDT)
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- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Blake wrote:
> I expected Out[1]={a,b,c}, from a naieve reading of the full form of
> a*b*c
> In[2]:=FullForm[a*b*c]
> Out[2]//FullForm=Times[a,b,c]
Incidentally, it's worth mentioning that in this example all you want
to do is change the head of an expression (from Times to List). Apply
does that very very quickly, without messing around with patterns.
In[20]:=
Apply[List,a*b*c]
Out[20]=
{a,b,c}
List@@(a*b*c) is a variant syntax for the same thing. Of course, this
example may be simpler than what you ultimately intended to do.