Re: Help with concatenating a list with &&
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- Subject: [mg102198] Re: [mg102153] Help with concatenating a list with &&
- From: Adriano Pascoletti <adriano.pascoletti at dimi.uniud.it>
- Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 03:59:07 -0400 (EDT)
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&& is the infix form of And
In[1]:= ls = {ex1, ex2, ex3, ex4}; And @@ ls
Out[1]= ex1 && ex2 && ex3 && ex4
Adriano Pascoletti
2009/7/31 janey <janemkiwi at gmail.com>
> Can anyone help me make better use of mathematica's built in commands?
>
> My problem is to take the list of expressions ls:
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> ls={ex1, ex2, ex3, ex4}
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> and connect them to obtain
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> ex1 && ex2 && ex3 && ex4
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> I thought I should be able to use
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> && @@ ls
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> or equivalently Apply[&&, ls]
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> However this fails. I ended up using the very awkward
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> conditions = ls[[1]] && ls[[2]]
> Do[conds = conds && ls[[i]], {i, 3, Length[ls]}]
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> which works but feels like just bludgeoning the problem
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> Does anyone know of a more elegant way to work this?
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> Thanks,
> Jane.
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