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Re: Rules

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  • Subject: [mg66378] Re: Rules
  • From: dh <dh at metrohm.ch>
  • Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 02:15:05 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi Marcin
see below, Daniel

Marcin Rak wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> 
> I had two simple questions, and was wondering wether anyone could through
> something my way:
> 
> 1) When we have a list, call it AList, and we type the following
> AList /. {rule1}
braces are needed when you have more than one rule
> AList /. rule1
> what is the difference between the two?  And, how would I go about
> defining a rule for the variable AList, and a rule for the contents of the
> list - obviously these are two different concepts, yet how would you
> differentiate b/w the two?
A rule for a whole list:
{1, 2, 3} /. {a_, b_, c_} -> {a, c}
or a rule for single elemnts:
{1, 2, 3} /. 2->5
> 
> Thanx to all
> MR
> 


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