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RE: List Question

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  • Subject: [mg67927] RE: [mg67889] List Question
  • From: "David Annetts" <davidannetts at aapt.net.au>
  • Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 06:53:32 -0400 (EDT)
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hi Simon,

> I have a list with the following structure:
> 
> {{x1,y1},{x2,y2},{x3,y3,z3},{x4,y4}...}
> 
> As you can see some of the data points have three elements. I 
> would like to remove these z elements so that the list has a 
> structure {{x1,y1},{x2,y2},{x3,y3},{x4,y4}...}. I'm not sure 
> how to achieve this so any help is greatly appreciated.

If 

	lst = {{x1, y1}, {x2, y2}, {x3, y3, z3}, {x4, y4}}

Then there is always

	new = lst /. {x_, y_, z_} -> {x, y}

Regards,

Dave.


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