Re: Pattern matching
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- Subject: [mg116548] Re: Pattern matching
- From: Leonid Shifrin <lshifr at gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 05:13:34 -0500 (EST)
Could do this:
In[1]:= f[u] /. f[u + x : _ : 0] -> x
Out[1]= 0
Regards,
Leonid
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 12:33 PM, <"\"Andr=E9 M. Grabinski\""@smc.vnet.net> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> hopefully someone of you could answer me a simple question concerning
> patterns in Mathematica 8. Consider the following minimal example,
>
>
> In[1]:= rule = f[u + x_] -> x;
> f[u + 5] /. rule
> f[u + 0] /. rule
> f[u] /. rule
>
> Out[1]= 5
>
> Out[2]= f[u]
>
> Out[3]= f[u]
>
>
> Now the question: in which way do I need to modify "rule" in order to
> get "0" as result for "Out[3]"? Of course I could add a second rule,
> i.e. "rule = {f[u + x_] -> x,f[u] -> 0}", but I feel like there should
> be a more elegant way than to take care of each and every exception
> (okay, in this minimal example this wouldn't matter but I'm just
> interested in the general way of setting up patterns).
>
> Thank you very much in advance,
>
> A.G.
>
>