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Re: newbie list question

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  • Subject: [mg114995] Re: newbie list question
  • From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
  • Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 06:47:37 -0500 (EST)

The following will do it:

   Flatten[First@Position[listA, #] & /@ listB]

That's a "functional" method. Doubtless there's a (possibly simpler) 
pattern-matching method as well.

On 12/26/2010 4:02 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...
>
> What would be the neatest syntax for finding the first location of elements from one list in another? For example:
>
> listA = { 4,5,8,2,6,4 }
> listB = { 8,4,2 }
>
>
> I would like a function to return {3,1,4} in this case (the first location in A of each element in B)
>
> Many thanks!
>

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