Re: Pattern to match a list of non-negative integers
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- Subject: [mg109009] Re: Pattern to match a list of non-negative integers
- From: Raffy <adraffy at gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 06:53:15 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <hpkgmo$83k$1@smc.vnet.net>
On Apr 8, 5:03 am, "Carl K. Woll" <ca... at wolfram.com> wrote:
> On 4/7/2010 3:20 AM, Leo Alekseyev wrote:> This seems like a very basic p=
attern-matching question, but somehow
> > the answer eludes me at the moment. I want to match a list of
> > non-negative integers. Something like MatchQ[{1,2},{(x_Integer /; x
>
> >> = 0)..}] doesn't work -- do named patterns simply not play well with
>
> > Repeated[]?..
>
> Yes. The named pattern must be the same, so only {1,1} would match.
> Instead you can use PatternTest:
>
> MatchQ[{1,2}, {_Integer?(#!=0&) .. }]
>
> Of course, simpler is to use:
>
> MatchQ[{1,2}, {__Integer?NonNegative}]
>
> Carl Woll
> Wolfram Research
>
>
>
> > After starting to write this message, the following pattern, occurred t=
o me:
> > MatchQ[{2, 3}, x : {_Integer ..} /; ! MemberQ[x, y_ /; Negative[y]]]
> > -- this works, but seems needlessly complex -- so I'll send the
> > message on, in hopes that there is a cleaner way of writing the
> > pattern.
I was surprised that __?Test works properly by applying the test to
each element of the matched sequence.
I would not of expected this behavior, however, after looking, it does
appear in the documentation.
Thanks.