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Re: Any simple way to flatten all but the bottom level?

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  • Subject: [mg72350] Re: Any simple way to flatten all but the bottom level?
  • From: "Roman" <rschmied at gmail.com>
  • Date: Tue, 26 Dec 2006 07:35:04 -0500 (EST)
  • References: <emb4dh$950$1@smc.vnet.net>

A simple way is to flatten the list completely and then re-partition it
into groups of 3:

x = {{0, 0, 0}, {{0, 0, 13}, {0, 1, 9}, {0, 2, 5}, {0, 3, 1}}, {{1, 0,
4}, {1, 1, 0}}};
Partition[Flatten[x], 3]

This only works if the lengths of the innermost lists are all equal and
known, of course.

Roman.

dontdont at gmail.com wrote:
> Am I overlooking something I should be able to see?
>
> When I Nest Table I sometimes produce things like this
>
> {{0, 0, 0}, {{0, 0, 13}, {0, 1, 9}, {0, 2, 5}, {0, 3, 1}}, {{1, 0, 4},
> {1, 1, 0}}}
>
> where each triple is actually one solution I'm looking for.
> But I don't see a simple way to transform this result into
>
> {{0, 0, 0}, {0, 0, 13}, {0, 1, 9}, {0, 2, 5}, {0, 3, 1}, {1, 0, 4}, {1,
> 1, 0}}
>
> I would have guessed there would be a way to coax Flatten to do this.
>
> Thus far I haven't found what looks like a good method.
> I have found a few awkward and bad ways but no simple clean way.
> 
> Would anyone enlighten me?
> 
> thanks


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