Re: Replacement according to the pattern
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- Subject: [mg77580] Re: Replacement according to the pattern
- From: dh <dh at metrohm.ch>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2007 07:33:52 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi Tomas, the problem you have comes from: Rule: ->. You should use RuleDelayed: :>. Otherwise the differentiation is done before a has a value: D[HPL[a,u],u]. This is the reason that in your result HPL seems to have 2 arguments insted of 4: compare (0,1) with ({0,0,0},1). hope this helps, Daniel tomuf at seznam.cz wrote: > Hello, > I wanted to parse a big expression and according to some rules > integrate it term by term. For example, I wanted to replace symbol > > HPL[{1, 1, 0}, u] > > where HPL(list,variable) is function from package, with (note that > this simplified example has no mathematical sense) > > HPL[{1, 1, 0}, u] - D[HPL[{1, 1, 0}, u], u] > > i.e. that function minus its derivative with respect to 'u'. I have > loaded package which allows me to differentiate HPL. This works fine. > But when I try to generalize this to handle all lists like {1,1,0} at > the same time so that I don't have to type the rule for all > combinations, the replacement doesn't work well. When I type: > > in = HPL[{1, 1, 0}, u] > in /. HPL[{1, 1, 0}, u] -> HPL[{1, 1, 0}, u] - D[HPL[{1, 1, 0}, u], u] > in /. HPL[a_, u] -> HPL[a, u] - D[HPL[a, u], u] > > the third line produces different result than the second line (the > difference is in the term involving derivative). Does anyone know what > could be wrong? Thanks in advance > > Best regards, > Tomas Prochazka > >