Re: Re: Another question on lists
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- Subject: [mg80711] Re: [mg80641] Re: [mg80618] Another question on lists
- From: Carl Woll <carlw at wolfram.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 04:24:08 -0400 (EDT)
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DrMajorBob wrote:
>Here's an example:
>
>sample = Array[
> RandomInteger[{1, 10}, {RandomInteger[{3, 10}]}] &, {15}]
>Length /@ %
>
>{{5, 7, 7, 1, 2, 5, 2, 7, 3}, {3, 4, 3, 8, 8}, {1, 4, 6, 6, 1, 6,
> 3}, {4, 6, 1, 9, 9, 7, 3, 5, 10}, {9, 1, 4, 2, 7, 1, 5}, {2, 8, 2,
> 4, 7, 3, 8}, {2, 10, 4, 7, 2, 10, 3}, {10, 5, 10, 6, 5, 10, 4, 3,
> 4}, {5, 2, 3, 10, 8}, {5, 1, 7}, {1, 5, 8, 4, 8, 5, 8, 2}, {3, 3, 8,
> 5, 1, 7}, {6, 10, 1, 6, 3, 5, 7, 6, 1, 7}, {3, 5, 1, 6, 6}, {10,
> 10, 9, 3, 9}}
>
>{9, 5, 7, 9, 7, 7, 7, 9, 5, 3, 8, 6, 10, 5, 5}
>
>Last@SortBy[sample, Length]
>
>{6, 10, 1, 6, 3, 5, 7, 6, 1, 7}
>
>or
>
>sample[[Ordering[sample, -1, Length[#1] < Length[#2] &]]]
>
>{{6, 10, 1, 6, 3, 5, 7, 6, 1, 7}}
>
>
Just a minor comment that the third argument of Ordering is not needed
in this case, since the default order used sorts by length of list
first. Try:
sample[[Ordering[sample,-1]]]
instead.
Carl Woll
Wolfram Research
>Bobby
>
>On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 22:20:22 -0500, Mauricio Esteban Cuak
><cuak2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
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>>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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- Re: Another question on lists
- From: DrMajorBob <drmajorbob@bigfoot.com>
- Re: Another question on lists