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Re: Selecting Lists Without Null Results

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  • Subject: [mg69032] Re: Selecting Lists Without Null Results
  • From: Jean-Marc Gulliet <jeanmarc.gulliet at gmail.com>
  • Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 01:24:07 -0400 (EDT)
  • Organization: The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
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Gregory Lypny wrote:
> 	I must be doing something wrong as usual.  How come I can select  
> list with elements that have the word Null in them as a result of a  
> computation, but I cannot exclude them?
> 
> I have an array called runsTable with 179 rows, and there are five  
> rows with Null in column 14.
> 
> So,
> 
> 	Length[Select[runsTable, #[[14]] == Null &]
> 
> returns 5.
> 
> But
> 
> 	Length[Select[runsTable, (#[[14]]¬ Null) &]]
> 
> returns 0 when it should return 174, that is, 179 minus 5.
> 
> 	Am I using the NOT operator incorrectly?
> 
> 	Regards,
> 
> 		Gregory
> 
Hi Gregory,

Although I do not have any explanation about the behavior of your 
expression with the Not function, you could achieve the intended feature 
by using the DeleteCases function as in In[3]:

In[1]:=
runsTable=Table[If[(n=Random[])â?¤9/10,n , Null],{10},{5}]

Out[1]=
{{0.49539, 0.316524, 0.664504, 0.103548, 0.492748},

   {0.70693, 0.124625, 0.439284, 0.338863, 0.434249},

   {0.0211921, 0.250494, 0.590875, 0.504541, Null},

   {0.447929, 0.500307, 0.877769, 0.26441, 0.665427},

   {0.512114, 0.565924, Null, Null, 0.0167236},

   {0.2494, 0.240872, 0.807139, 0.523975, 0.54247},

   {0.116247, 0.367855, 0.185113, 0.108221, 0.0950553},

   {0.117361, 0.594238, 0.603679, 0.113885, 0.669432},

   {0.0939308, 0.72591, 0.849475, 0.00400574,

    0.581817}, {0.159987, Null, 0.0933188, 0.565094,

    Null}}

In[2]:=
Length[Cases[runsTable,x_/;x[[5]]==Null]]

Out[2]=
2

In[3]:=
Length[DeleteCases[runsTable,x_/;x[[5]]==Null]]

Out[3]=
8

Regards,
Jean-Marc


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