Re: Matching Or expressions
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg72259] Re: [mg72250] Matching Or expressions
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz at mimuw.edu.pl>
- Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2006 06:19:59 -0500 (EST)
- References: <200612161018.FAA12216@smc.vnet.net>
On 16 Dec 2006, at 19:18, 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. > > Thanks > > Johan > > The context is as follows: > > I wish to find the number of solutions to a diophantine equation > with a > finite number of solutions. > > I do the following > sols = Reduce[eqns, vars, Integers] > and this gives me an expression that normally looks like Or[_,_,_] if > there are several solutions, or something else if there are not. > > Now I wish to find the number of solutions using > Which[MatchQ[sols, Or[_]], Length[sols], DoOtherStuff] > > The problem is that the MatchQ[ expr, Or[_] ] also matches e.g. > (x==2 && > y==4), which is only one solution. > Note that: Or[_] _ So MatchQ[And[p,q],Or[_]] evaluates to MatchQ[And[p,q],_] and, not surprisingly, this in turn evaluates to True. All you need to do is: MatchQ[And[p,q],HoldPattern[Or[_]]] False and your problem is gone. Andrzej Kozlowski
- References:
- Matching Or expressions
- From: Johan Grönqvist <johan.gronqvist@gmail.com>
- Matching Or expressions