Re: generalized foldlist problem
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- Subject: [mg69151] Re: [mg69057] generalized foldlist problem
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
- Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 04:39:06 -0400 (EDT)
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On 29 Aug 2006, at 08:25, Arkadiusz Majka wrote:
> DearAll,
>
> Please, help!
>
> I have two list
>
> list1={a,b,c,d,e}
> list2={3,2,5,1,6}
>
> and I want to apply a modified version of FoldList to list1 in the
> following way: list2 indicates that element a appears only 3 times (if
> space enough) beginning from the beginning of the list , element b
> appears 2 times, c - 5 times , etc.
>
> So the output should be
>
> GeneralizedFoldList[list1,list2]={a,a+b,a+b+c,c+d,c+e}
>
> Thanks for any hints,
>
> arek
>
Here is a solution which seems to me different from any of the ones I
have seen posted so far:
GF[list1_, list2_] := Module[{f, g}, Evaluate[Map[f, list1]] = list2;
g[x_] := If[--f[x] < 0, 0, x];
FoldList[g /@ Plus[#1, #2] &, g[a],Rest[list1]]]
GF[list1,list2]
{a,a+b,a+b+c,c+d,c+e}
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- generalized foldlist problem
- From: "Arkadiusz Majka" <Arkadiusz.Majka@telekomunikacja.pl>
- generalized foldlist problem