Re: Replace specific element with specific value.
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- Subject: [mg99660] Re: Replace specific element with specific value.
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 05:18:18 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <gu3av0$1f$1@smc.vnet.net>
Hi, data /. {x -> x + xx, y -> y + yy, z -> z + zz} ? Regards Jens nick.maj at mssm.edu wrote: > I tried this code, it gives me right and wrong results spreeded into > nested lists. > > data = {{0, 2}, {2, x}, {3, 4}, {4, 6}, {6, y}, {8, 9}, {9, z}} > > Table[{#1, #2 + Which[#2 === j, i, #2 =!= j, 0]} & @@@ > data, {i, {xx, yy, zz}}, {j, {x, y, z}}] > > needed output: > > {0, 2}, {2, x+xx}, {3, 4}, {4, 6}, {6, y+yy}, {8, 9}, {9, z+zz}} > > While searching only the second element of each list, if x is found > add xx and if y is found add yy to it etc. > > How to. Thanks in advance, Nick. >