Re: Replacing Numbers in a List
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- Subject: [mg68271] Re: Replacing Numbers in a List
- From: jesse.woodroffe at gmail.com
- Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 03:45:38 -0400 (EDT)
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Well, to do it without any looping, you might try
x /. xelem_?(MemberQ[y, #1] &) -> 222
jw
Gregory Lypny wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have a long list of integers called x, and I want to replace those
> that are members of list y with the number 222.
>
> I did it this way with a Do loop.
>
> y = {122, 211, 212, 221, 223, 232, 322};
> Do[x = ReplacePart[x,222, Position[x, y[[i]]]],{i, Length@y} ]
>
> Is this OK, or is there a more direct way?
>
> Regards,
>
> Gregory