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Re: Function to detect presence of a variable in

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  • Subject: [mg109440] Re: Function to detect presence of a variable in
  • From: David Bailey <dave at removedbailey.co.uk>
  • Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 04:06:43 -0400 (EDT)
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Raffy wrote:
> 
> Position produces results valid for Extract:
> 
> Extract[anything, {{}}] === anything, since: Part[anything] ===
> anything
> 

Except that unfortunately Extract doesn't seem to work in this case:

In[511]:= Extract[foo[a, b, c], {}]

Out[511]= {}

David Bailey
http://www.dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk


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