Re: more looping trouble
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- Subject: [mg85500] Re: more looping trouble
- From: Albert Retey <awnl at arcor.net>
- Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:05:57 -0500 (EST)
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Hi,
> Sorry for these lame questions but I'm still trying to get my head around
> loops. I though I had it but I hit a snag today.
>
> I have a table of numbers {{1,2,3},{2,3,4}} I want to use a loop to remove
> the third integer in each set and reassemble them as a new table.
> However, something is going wrong I think it's because i'm not grasping some
> fundamental idea about how to perform these type of operations on tables.
for many many cases you won't even need a Map or other constructs when
learning that many functions in Mathematica work to various levels in
nested lists, here I think the following will not only be very simple
and easy to read but also quite efficient:
lst = {{1, 2, 3}, {a, b, c}, {x, y, z}};
Take[lst, All, 2]
hth,
albert