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Re: A Reap Sow question

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  • Subject: [mg65198] Re: A Reap Sow question
  • From: dh <dh at metrohm.ch>
  • Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 05:45:38 -0500 (EST)
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Hi Janos,
there is something wrong with your questions. See below.
Daniel

János wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> First, thanks a lot to Valeri Astanoff, Daniel Lichtblau, David Park  
> and Carl Woll  for the valuable suggestions to my previous post.
> 
> Let say I have a construct like
> 
> collection=Reap[i=1; While[i<=10,Sow[i]];]
No real problem here, but you certainly want to increment i, otherwise 
you get an infinit loop.
> 
> Is it possible to put a condition on Sow referring back to  
> collection ?  Something like:
> 
> collection=Reap[i=1; While[i<=10,If[Length[First[Last[collection]] ] 
>  >5,,Sow[i] ] ];]
Sure, but we have a real problem here.

Before you execute your statement, collection has no value. Even during 
execution of the right side, collection has no yet a value. Therefore, 
what do you want to test?

You could set collection to some value before execution of your 
statement. Your test would then apply to this value. Note also, if you 
execute the statement repeatetly, the test always concerns the previous 
value of collection.

> 
> If not, - I have not seen any indication in Help either way - , what  
> technique can be used to get a similar effect without resorting to  
> global lists or arrays?
> 
> Thanks ahead,
> 
> János
> 
> 
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