Re: Filtering a list of list for certain elements that are neighbours
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- Subject: [mg88849] Re: Filtering a list of list for certain elements that are neighbours
- From: dh <dh at metrohm.ch>
- Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 05:16:47 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi Steve, try e.g.: DeleteCases[mylist,{___,a,b,___}|{___,b,a,___}] hope this helps, Daniel Steven Siew wrote: > I have a list of lists > > mylist={{a,b,c},{a,c,b},{b,a,c},{b,c,a},{c,a,b},{c,b,a}} > > I want to filter out all lists that have "a being a neighbor to b". > > I am looking for the following result. > > {{a,c,b},{b,c,a}} > > > For this toy example, I can probably do it by hand but my real problem > has 120 lists in a list. And I need to filter out various combination > of letters like "s cannot be next to d" , "s cannot be next to j" , "c > cannot be next to j" , "h cannot be next to d" and "h cannot be next > to s". >