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Re: finding the position of a pattern in list

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• Subject: [mg64643] Re: [mg64583] finding the position of a pattern in list
• From: "Yasvir A. Tesiram" <tesiramy at omrf.ouhsc.edu>
• Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:19:57 -0500 (EST)
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G'day,

l = {0,0,1,1,1,0,0,1,1,1,0};

Position[Partition[l, 2, 1], {0, 1}] // Flatten

Cheers
Yas


On Thu, 23 Feb 2006, Gang Ma wrote:

> Hi,
> I am working on a program to do the following: My data is a list of 0
> and 1. For example, {0,0,1,1,1,0,0,1,1,1,0}. I want to find the
> positions of all the pattern of {0,1}.  In my previous example, the
> first {0,1} is at 2 and and the second {0,1} appears at 7. I can
> write a loop to do this, but I have several thousands such lists,
> the computation will be time consuming using loop.
>
> My question is whether it is possible to use the pattern match to do
> this quickly.  If not for the list, do I need to convert the list to
> string then use some pattern match for string?  Thank you very much.
>
> regards,
>
> Gang Ma
>
>
>

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