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Re: Matching Or expressions

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg72269] Re: Matching Or expressions
• From: Jean-Marc Gulliet <jeanmarc.gulliet at gmail.com>
• Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 06:20:27 -0500 (EST)
• Organization: The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
• References: <em0ia6$cbr$1@smc.vnet.net>

Johan Grönqvist wrote:
> The context of my problem is explained below.
> 
> I wish to distinguish expressions of the form And[p,q] from those of the 
> form Or[p,q], but the only thing I find is
> MatchQ[myExpr, Or[_]]
> and to my surprise I see that MatchQ[And[p,q],Or[_]] is True. Thus I can 
> not use this to match only the Or-expressions.

Above, you are looking for any pattern (the underscore), which will be 
named "Or". What you want to test is the head of the expression as in 
the expression below.

In[1]:=
expr = x == 2 && y == 4;
MatchQ[expr, _Or]
MatchQ[expr, _And]

Out[2]=
False

Out[3]=
True


<snip>

Regards,
Jean-Marc