Re: finding the position of a pattern in list
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- Subject: [mg64626] Re: [mg64583] finding the position of a pattern in list
- From: János <janos.lobb at yale.edu>
- Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:18:29 -0500 (EST)
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On Feb 23, 2006, at 12:34 AM, 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
>
>
Here is a newbie approach:
In[2]:=
Position[Partition[lst, 2,
1], {0, 1}]
Out[2]=
{{2}, {7}}
János
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