Re: List re-arrangement question
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg87748] Re: List re-arrangement question
- From: Szabolcs Horvát <szhorvat at gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:50:33 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: University of Bergen
- References: <fu4fkm$nip$1@smc.vnet.net>
Yaroslav Bulatov wrote:
> I'm trying to do something like the following:
> Transpose[{{{a1, a2, a3}, {a1}, {a1, a2, a3}}, {{b1, b2, b3}, {b1},
> {b1, b2, b3}}}, {3, 1, 2}]
>
> expecting to get:
> {{{a1, b1}, {a2, b2}, {a3, b3}}, {{a1, b1}}, {{a1, b1}, {a2, b2}, {a3,
> b3}}}
>
> However, it looks like Transpose doesn't work with "ragged"
> arrays...so what is the recommended Mathematica style to do the above
> transformation?
>
Hi Yaroslav,
Thread[] is very similar to Transpose[] (in fact completely equivalent
for matrices), but it is more difficult to use with multidimensional
arrays. On the up side, it works fine with ragged arrays :-)
In[1]:= xx = {{{a1, a2, a3}, {a1}, {a1, a2, a3}}, {{b1, b2,
b3}, {b1}, {b1, b2, b3}}}
Out[1]= {{{a1, a2, a3}, {a1}, {a1, a2, a3}}, {{b1, b2, b3}, {b1}, {b1,
b2, b3}}}
In[2]:= Thread[xx]
Out[2]= {{{a1, a2, a3}, {b1, b2, b3}}, {{a1}, {b1}}, {{a1, a2,
a3}, {b1, b2, b3}}}
In[3]:= Thread /@ %
Out[3]= {{{a1, b1}, {a2, b2}, {a3, b3}}, {{a1, b1}}, {{a1, b1}, {a2,
b2}, {a3, b3}}}
Szabolcs