Re: List Comparison
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- Subject: [mg67155] Re: List Comparison
- From: bghiggins at ucdavis.edu
- Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2006 02:17:06 -0400 (EDT)
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Try this: result1={};Table[If[(list1[[n,1]]===list2[[n,1]])&&(list1[[ n,2]]===list2[[n,2]]),AppendTo[result1,Append[list1[[n]], list2[[n,3]]]]],{n,1,Length[list1]}]; result1 Out[139]= {{1,aa,565,34},{1,bb,566,66},{1,cc,546,5443},{2,dd,56,76},{2,ff,56,87}} result2={};Table[If[(list1[[n,1]]=!=list2[[n,1]])||(list1[[ n,2]]=!=list2[[n,2]]),AppendTo[result2,list1[[n]]]],{n,1, Length[list1]}]; result2 Out[141]= {{2,ss,5}} In[145]:= result3={};Table[If[(list1[[n,1]]=!=list2[[n,1]])||(list1[[ n,2]]=!=list2[[n,2]]),AppendTo[result3,list2[[n]]]],{n,1, Length[list1]}]; result3 Out[146]= {{2,mm,87}} Cheers, Brian LectorZ wrote: > Dear experts, > > I want to compare two lists containing sublists and make out of them 3 > result lists. > The comparison applies to the first two elements of the sublists. > > list1 = {{1, aa, 565}, {1, bb, 566}, { > 1, cc, 546}, {2, dd, 56}, {2, ff, 56}, {2, ss, 5}} > list2 = {{1, aa, > 34}, {1, bb, 66}, {1, cc, 5443}, {2, dd, 76}, {2, ff, 87}, {2, mm, > 87}} > > Result ONE should be: > > If the FIRST element AND the SECOND elements of the sublists are equal, > then prepend the THIRD elements from list2. > > result1={{1, aa, 565, 34}, {1, bb, 566, 66}, { > 1, cc, 546, 5443}, {2, dd, 56, 76}, {2, ff, 56, 87}} > > Result TWO should be: > the FIRST element OR the SECOND elements of the sublists are NOT equal, > then display the difference from the list1 perspective > > result2={{2, ss, 5}} > > Result THREE should be: > the FIRST element OR the SECOND elements of the sublists are NOT equal, > then display the difference from the list2 perspective > result3={{2, mm, 87}} > > Thanks for your help > > LZ