RE: ReplaceAll (/.)
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- Subject: [mg69213] RE: [mg69197] ReplaceAll (/.)
- From: "David Park" <djmp at earthlink.net>
- Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 18:41:27 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Bruce, Try (a b) /. x_Times -> List @@ x // Trace If you want delayed evaluation of the rhs of the rule you have to use RuleDelayed. David Park djmp at earthlink.net http://home.earthlink.net/~djmp/ From: Bruce Colletti [mailto:vze269bv at verizon.net] To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net Re Mathematica 5.2.0.0. Why doesn't: (a b) /. x_Times -> List @@ x return {a,b}? My (flawed) reasoning is that a b has form Times[a,b], and so x matches to Times[a,b]. List@@x replaces Times with List to yield List[a,b], or {a,b}...or so it would seem. The explanation is somehow linked to the fact that: (a b) /. x_Times :> List @@ x returns {a,b}, but I don't see why this works but not the above. Although List@@(a,b) returns {a,b}, I want to use the above ReplaceAll function (this example here is taken from a larger problem). Thankx. Bruce