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Re: Question on Map or Apply

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• Subject: [mg66382] Re: Question on Map or Apply
• From: "Scout" <Scout at nodomain.com>
• Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 02:15:22 -0400 (EDT)
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"LectorZ" <lectorz at mail.ru>
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> Hi guys,
>
> I am trying to apply DaysBetween function to the following list:
>
> list={{{2006, 1, 16}, {2006,
>      3, 31}}, {{2006, 1, 24}, {2006, 3, 31}}, {{2005, 6, 17}, {2006,
> 3, 31}}}
>
> DaysBetween[list[[1, 1]], list[[1, 2]]] works well.
> What I need is to apply DaysBetween on the whole list conaining 3
> sublists and getting a new list as a result containing 3 numbers.
>
> Thanks,
>
> LZ
>
Hi,
you could try with this:

    In[1]:= DaysBetween[#[[1]], #[[2]]] & /@ list
    Out[1]= {74, 66, 287}

Regards,
    ~Scout~