Re: Selecting Many Things Rather Than Selecting One Thing From Many
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- Subject: [mg66194] Re: [mg66180] Selecting Many Things Rather Than Selecting One Thing From Many
- From: Hartmut.Wolf at t-systems.com
- Date: Thu, 4 May 2006 05:19:32 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
> -----Original Message----- > From: Gregory Lypny [mailto:gregory.lypny at videotron.ca] To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net > Subject: [mg66194] [mg66180] Selecting Many Things Rather Than > Selecting One Thing From Many > > Hello everyone, > > I've discovered another use or need for the Select function, which I > suspect requires mapping of some sort. > > In my previous posts, members of this MathGroup kindly showed me how > to apply Select to many columns of a matrix at once. For example, > > (Select[#1, #1 > K & ] & ) /@ Transpose[theMatrix] > > will pull out all values greater than K, where K is a number such as > 100. > > But suppose now that K is a list of numbers, such as K={34, 876, > 199}, and I simply want to extract or identify all of the > rows in the > first column of theMatrix equal to any one of those numbers. How > would I do that? I started with > > Select[theMatrix, #[[1]]==any element of list K] > > and I imagine something similar could be applied to the Position > function. > > Any hint would be much appreciated. > > Gregory > Gregory, this is simple and perhaps good enough to identify the rows: In[6]:= M = Table[Random[Integer, {0, 9999}], {100000}, {5}]; // Timing Out[6]= {0.282 Second, Null} In[7]:= Position[M[[All, 1]], 34 | 199 | 876] // Timing Out[7]= {0.046 Second, {{4721}, {11778}, {17337}, {20008}, {20322}, {20934}, {26451}, \ {27608}, {27754}, {32699}, {34359}, {34653}, {39046}, {42495}, {42506}, \ {46940}, {49889}, {52322}, {54645}, {56331}, {57269}, {58562}, {59262}, \ {62137}, {62139}, {65675}, {68442}, {69835}, {71695}, {73574}, {74835}, \ {75793}, {88403}, {89449}, {93625}, {93871}, {97970}}} In[8]:= M[[59262]] Out[8]= {199, 7540, 3117, 7756, 9193} -- Hartmut