Re: How to work with In?
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- Subject: [mg114067] Re: How to work with In?
- From: Oliver Ruebenkoenig <ruebenko at wolfram.com>
- Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2010 07:39:51 -0500 (EST)
On Sat, 20 Nov 2010, kj wrote:
> In <ic5opg$70l$1 at smc.vnet.net> Oliver Ruebenkoenig <ruebenko at wolfram.com> writes:
>
>> On Fri, 19 Nov 2010, kj wrote:
>
>>> I want to create a list consisting of the (unevaluated) expressions
>>> that were entered in a particular subrange of the In array. I.e.,
>>> what I want is (almost) something like this:
>>>
>>> Table[In[i], {i, 300, 375}]
>>>
>>> except that this won't work, because each In[i] will be evaluated.
>>> This also fails
>>>
>>> Table[Hold[In[i]], {i, 300, 375}]
>>>
>>> because now the i is not evaluated, so the result is a list of
>>> multiple copies of the expression Hold[In[i]].
>>>
>>> How can I do what I'm trying to do?
>
>> I think this is your friend
>
>> Table[With[{i = i}, Hold[In[i]]], {i, 300, 375}]
>
>
> That's one cool trick! Thanks!
With is used to inject code into held expressions.
>
> Unfortunately, it doesn't solve this problem:
>
> In[31]:= Table[With[{i = i}, Hold[In[i]]], {i, 20, 30}]
>
> Out[31]= {Hold[In[20]], Hold[In[21]], Hold[In[22]], Hold[In[23]],
> Hold[In[24]], Hold[In[25]], Hold[In[26]], Hold[In[27]], Hold[In[28]],
> Hold[In[29]], Hold[In[30]]}
>
> I need each of In[20], In[21], ..., In[30] to be processed by the
> kernel exactly once before clamping the result with Hold.
>
ReleaseHold[Table[With[{i = i}, Hold[In[i]]], {i, 1, 4}] ]
> By the way, being able to limit the level of evaluation to a precise
> number of "passes", greater than zero, but not all the way to full
> evaluation, is something I find myself needing very often.
>
> ~kj
>
>