Re: de-nesting complex nested lists
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg111415] Re: de-nesting complex nested lists
- From: Michael Stern <nycstern at gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2010 02:42:14 -0400 (EDT)
Thanks to everybody who responded; there were many excellent answers. This
one is the most jaw-dropping; even reading the documentation for Level[] I
would not have realized this would work.
Michael
On Jul 26, 2010, at 6:38 AM, Szabolcs Horv=E1t wrote:
> On 2010.07.25. 8:00, 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}} ) ?
>>
>
>
> Hi MathGroup,
>
> Here's a little trick to do this in a single step:
>
> d == {{1, 2, 3}, {1, 2, 4}, {{1, 2, 3, 4}, {1, 2, 3, 8}}, {{1, 2, 9},
> {{1, 2, 13}, {4, 5, 6}}}}
>
> Level[d, {-2}]
>
> Just use the leaves of the tree as reference when taking the items, not
> the root. That is, use a negative value in the level specification.
>
> Cheers,
> Szabolcs
>