Re: Selecting Lists Without Null Results
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- Subject: [mg69038] Re: [mg68970] Selecting Lists Without Null Results
- From: "Chris Chiasson" <chris at chiasson.name>
- Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 01:24:21 -0400 (EDT)
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There are so many functions in the function reference, that it can be
hard to know which one to use. That only comes with experience. In
this case, you should probably use Count or perhaps Length applied to
Cases. If this isn't close enough to what you want to do, please let
me know.
a=Array[Random[]&,{5,5}];
a[[{2,4},5]]=Null;
Length@Cases[a,x_/;MemberQ[x,Null]]
Out[3]=
2
Count[a,{___,Null,___}]
Out[4]=
2
On 8/26/06, Gregory Lypny <gregory.lypny at videotron.ca> 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
>
>
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- References:
- Selecting Lists Without Null Results
- From: Gregory Lypny <gregory.lypny@videotron.ca>
- Selecting Lists Without Null Results