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Re: de-nesting complex nested lists

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  • Subject: [mg111267] Re: de-nesting complex nested lists
  • From: Daniel Huber <danielphuber at gmail.com>
  • Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2010 07:46:31 -0400 (EDT)
  • References: <i2gjui$am$1@smc.vnet.net>

On 25.07.2010 08:00, Michael Stern wrote:
> If one has an irregularly nested list like
>
> {{1, 2, 3}, {1, 2,  4}, {{1, 2, 3, 4}, {1, 2, 3, 8}}, {{1, 2, 9}, {{1, 2, 13}, {4, 5, 6}}}},
>
> How might one most easily transform this into a list of uniform Depth 2  ( {{1,2,3},{1,2,4},{1,2,3,4},{1,2,3,8},{1,2,9},{1,2,13},{4,5,6}} ) ?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Michael
>
Hi Michael,
you could e.g. try:

t = {{1, 2, 3}, {1, 2, 4}, {{1, 2, 3, 4}, {1, 2, 3, 8}}, {{1, 2, 9}, 
{{1, 2, 13}, {4, 5, 6}}}};
t //. {a : {__} ..} -> a // List

cheers, Daniel


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