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Re: Manipulate list elements

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  • Subject: [mg67743] Re: Manipulate list elements
  • From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at earthlink.net>
  • Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 06:52:49 -0400 (EDT)
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On 7/5/06 at 4:17 AM, ute.paul at gmail.com wrote:

>I have a list of words. These words are written in capital letters.
>I need a list with these words in lower case letters. How can I
>manipulate the list elements that the capital letters become lower
>case letters? Example: list={{ABILITY, CAPABILITY},{PERSON, FLY}}
>=>list={{ability, capability},{person, fly}}

Making the assumption the elements are strings. That is list is really

list = {{"ABILITY", "CAPABILITY"}, {"PERSON", "FLY"}};

then ToLowerCase does the job, i.e.,

In[4]:=
ToLowerCase[list]

Out[4]=
{{"ability", "capability"}, {"person", "fly"}}


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