Re: Help with concatenating a list with &&
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- Subject: [mg102206] Re: [mg102153] Help with concatenating a list with &&
- From: DrMajorBob <btreat1 at austin.rr.com>
- Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 04:00:45 -0400 (EDT)
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ls = {ex1, ex2, ex3, ex4};
And @@ ls
ex1 && ex2 && ex3 && ex4
Bobby
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:52:48 -0500, janey <janemkiwi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Can anyone help me make better use of mathematica's built in commands?
>
> My problem is to take the list of expressions ls:
>
> ls={ex1, ex2, ex3, ex4}
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> and connect them to obtain
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> ex1 && ex2 && ex3 && ex4
>
>
> 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
>
> Does anyone know of a more elegant way to work this?
>
> Thanks,
> Jane.
>
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