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Re: Selecting Element from List via Pattern Matching

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  • Subject: [mg89423] Re: Selecting Element from List via Pattern Matching
  • From: Michael Weyrauch <michael.weyrauch at gmx.de>
  • Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 02:28:32 -0400 (EDT)
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  • Reply-to: michael.weyrauch at gmx.de

Hello

there are various possibilities to that, one is:

Select[t, MemberQ[#, Subscript[a, 2]^2]&]

Michael


immanuel.bloch at googlemail.com schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
>  I am trying to extract from a Power Series all elements with a
> certain exponent, e.g.
> let us say I have generated a list via
> 
> t = Apply[List, Expand[(Sum[Subscript[a, i], {i, 1, 5}])^3]]
> 
> How can I then extract all terms with e.g. a_2^2 in it or any other
> exponent?
> 
> I have tried something like
> 
> Cases[t, Times[_, Power[Subscript[a,2],2]]]
> 
> but this somehow only works with the exponent n=1 and no others...
> 
> Does anybody know a solution to this pattern matching problem?
> 
> Thanks!
> Immanuel
> 


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