Re: Help with concatenating a list with &&
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- Subject: [mg102193] Re: [mg102153] Help with concatenating a list with &&
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2009 03:58:07 -0400 (EDT)
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And @@ {ex1, ex2, ex3, ex4}
ex1&&ex2&&ex3&&ex4
In general, beware of using "special input forms" (such as && instead of
the actual function And) in combination with functional constructs (such
as Apply).
janey 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}
>
> and connect them to obtain
>
> ex1 && ex2 && ex3 && ex4
>
>
> I thought I should be able to use
>
> && @@ ls
>
> or equivalently Apply[&&, ls]
>
> However this fails. I ended up using the very awkward
>
> conditions = ls[[1]] && ls[[2]]
> Do[conds = conds && ls[[i]], {i, 3, Length[ls]}]
>
> 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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