Re: ReplaceRepeated info
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- Subject: [mg77719] Re: [mg77673] ReplaceRepeated info
- From: DrMajorBob <drmajorbob at bigfoot.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 04:42:37 -0400 (EDT)
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rule = Log[x_ y_] :> (counter++; Log[x] + Log[y])
counter = 0;
Log[d p q r] Log[a b c d] //. rule
counter
Log[x_ y_] :> (counter++; Log[x] + Log[y])
(Log[a] + Log[b] + Log[c] + Log[d]) (Log[d] + Log[p] + Log[q] +
Log[r])
6
Bobby
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 05:19:30 -0500, alexxx.magni at gmail.com
<alexxx.magni at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> I need to use in my program ReplaceRepeated, and also to know, after
> it has been applied, how many times a replacement happened. Say, after
> this:
>
> Log[d p q r] Log[a b c d]//.Log[x_ y_] ->Log[x] + Log[y]
>
> (Log[a] + Log[b] + Log[c] + Log[d]) (Log[d] + Log[p] + Log[q] +
> Log[r])
>
>
> ... I'd need to know that it performed 6 substitutions.
> There is a way with //. , or have I to resort to some loop around /. ,
> checking myself when no change happens anymore?
>
>
> Thank you!
>
> Alessandro Magni
>
>
>
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