Re: String to List
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- Subject: [mg76973] Re: [mg76959] String to List
- From: János <janos.lobb at yale.edu>
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 03:17:50 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <200705300936.FAA13551@smc.vnet.net>
On May 30, 2007, at 5:36 AM, King, Peter R wrote:
> I have a string which in general looks something like
>
> a="{x,16,x,1T,x}"
>
> In other words it looks like a list with a mixture of characters and
> numbers and so on. I want to pick out the individual elements of this
> (using the commas as delimiters)
>
> Clearly a[[1]] etc doesn't mean anything
>
> I can do b=ToExpression[a] and I get a list so b[[1]] is x and
> b[[2]]=16 (that is the number sixteen but I can convert this back =
> into =
> a
> string with ToString. The problem is b[[4]] which ToExpression turns
> into T as it thinks I mean 1 x T.
>
> So I would appreciate help with either
>
> i) converting my original string to a list as I would like
>
> Or
>
> Ii) stopping the evaluation of 1T into T so that I can get the
> string 1T
>
> (The only thought I had was to step through the original string
> character by character telling it to put the characters into different
> elements of a list each time I pass a comma, but this looked a bit
> cumbersome).
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Peter King
Here is a newbie approach:
In[43]:=
s = StringCases[StringReplace[
a, "," -> " "],
StringExpression[
WordBoundary,
StringExpression[_,
StringExpression[
ShortestMatch[__],
WordBoundary]]]]
Out[43]=
{"x ", "16", " x", " 1T",
" x"}
In[47]:=
s[[4]]
Out[47]=
" 1T"
J=E1nos
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- References:
- String to List
- From: "King, Peter R" <peter.king@imperial.ac.uk>
- String to List