Re: newbie list question
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- Subject: [mg114989] Re: newbie list question
- From: Achilleas Lazarides <achilleas.lazarides at gmx.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 06:46:32 -0500 (EST)
Hi,
This should do it:
First@Position[{4, 5, 8, 2, 6, 4}, #] & /@ {8, 4, 2}
Not sure if it's neat though (and you need to Flatten the result if you want the exact form you display below)
On Dec26, 2010, at 10:02 AM, Gareth Edwards wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Liking Mathematica a lot, but struggling with the early part of the learning curve, i.e. don't know what I don't know...
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> What would be the neatest syntax for finding the first location of elements from one list in another? For example:
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> listA == { 4,5,8,2,6,4 }
> listB == { 8,4,2 }
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> I would like a function to return {3,1,4} in this case (the first location in A of each element in B)
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> Many thanks!
>