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Re: All Possible Combinations from N Sublists

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  • Subject: [mg97679] Re: [mg97639] All Possible Combinations from N Sublists
  • From: Curtis Osterhoudt <cfo at lanl.gov>
  • Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 04:56:55 -0500 (EST)
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Hi, Donald, 

 Tuples@myList

 {{1, e, g}, {1, e, h}, {1, f, g}, {1, f, h}, {2, e, g}, {2, e, h}, {2, f, g}, {2, f, h}, {3, e, g}, {3, e, h}, {3, f, g}, {3, f, h}}

       Hope that helps!

                    C.O.



On Tuesday 17 March 2009 04:02:44 am Donald DuBois wrote:
> Given a list of N sublists, how can I produce all possible combinations where the first
> element comes from the first sublst, the second element from the second sublist etc.
> 
> For instance, 
> 
> myList = {{1, 2, 3}, {e, f}, {g, h}}
> 
> the result should be, 
> 
> 
> {{1, e, g}, {1, e, h}, {1, f, g}, {1, f, h}, {2, e, g}, {2, e, h}, {2, f, 
>   g}, {2, f, h}, {3, e, g}, {3, e, h}, {3, f, g}, {3, f, h}}
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> 



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