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Re: Another question on lists

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  • Subject: [mg80643] Re: [mg80618] Another question on lists
  • From: Bob Hanlon <hanlonr at cox.net>
  • Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 02:04:48 -0400 (EDT)
  • Reply-to: hanlonr at cox.net

aList = {{a, b, c}, Range[5], {1, a, 2, b, 3, c}, {1, 2}};

Select[aList, Length[#] == Max[Length /@ aList] &]

{{1, a, 2, b, 3, c}}

Select[aList, Length[#] == Min[Length /@ aList] &]

{{1, 2}}


Bob Hanlon

---- Mauricio Esteban Cuak <cuak2000 at gmail.com> wrote: 
> Hello again.Thank you very much for your previous help. However, I
> seem to stumble on another rock:
> 
> I  have a list of n sub-lists with different number of elements. I
> want to select the list with the highest number of elements.
> I tried to combine the Select function with Lenght but couldn't do it:
> 
> Select[list, Length /@ list >= Max[Length /@ list] &]
> 
> Thanks for reading.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> cd
> 
> P.D.: Any tips,websites, books, on how to learn some basic programming
> on Mathematica?
> I'm slowly beginning to read "The Mathematica Book"...should I just
> concentrate on that?
> 



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