Re: how to get rid of extra parentheses ?
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- Subject: [mg92526] Re: how to get rid of extra parentheses ?
- From: Peter Pein <petsie at dordos.net>
- Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 18:48:43 -0400 (EDT)
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Say you've got this result: In[1]:= result = {{cb*S*(V/2)}}; Take the first element of the first sublist: In[2]:= desiredResult = result[[1,1]] Out[2]= (cb*S*V)/2 If you get deeper nested results like: In[3]:= r5 = Nest[List, cb*S*(V/2), 5] Out[3]= {{{{{(cb*S*V)/2}}}}} then you can flatten this structure to a simple list and take the first part In[4]:= First[Flatten[r5]] Out[4]= (cb*S*V)/2 which gives the same result as this step-by-step-method: In[5]:= NestWhile[First, r5, ListQ] Out[5]= (cb*S*V)/2 hth, Peter Obaid Rehman schrieb: > Hi , there > > > > I am wondering if some one can help me in my issue. > > > > After some Algebraic manipulation I get the result but it is inside the > two parenthesis e.g. {{........... }}. The problem is that Mathematica > understand it as a list or matrix entry. > > If I need to use this result directly into the matrix manipulation it > gives the error. Question is how to get rid these extra parentheses in > the result that Mathematica add itself? > > > > e.g > > > > {{cb S V/ 2}} > > > > U can see there is no need of these extra parenthesis > > Obaid > >