Re: Delete elements from list..
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- Subject: [mg116683] Re: Delete elements from list..
- From: "Maarten van der Burgt" <Maarten.VanDerBurgt at kla-tencor.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 06:20:31 -0500 (EST)
Hallo,
Thanks everybody who replied to my questions.
The real problem I have is just a bit more complex than my simplified
example.
My list is in fact a numerical 2D list like mylist1 == {{x_0, y_0},
{x_1,y_1},... {x_i, y_i}, ...{x_N, y_N}}.
The xi are strictly increasing and the yi should be as well. Due to some
measurement errors it can happen that this is not the case. I simply
want to delete the {xi, yi} pairs where y_i <== y_i-1. That way I end up
with a list, mylist2, where also the y_i are strictly increasing.
(that way I can make an Interpolation[Reverse/@mylist2] in order to have
a function x_i(y_i)).
I have not had the time to study your answers in this view, but from a
first look and the variety of the answers it seems that there is
definitely something which should help.
Thanks for your help.
Maarten
-----Original Message-----
From: Achilleas Lazarides [mailto:achilleas.lazarides at gmx.com]
Sent: Wednesday, 23 February, 2011 11:22
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Subject: [mg116683] [mg116653] Re: Delete elements from list..
Do you really want the resulting list to only have increasing elements?
then something like
Module[{tmpl == mylist[[1]]},
Scan[(If[# > tmpl, Sow[#]; tmpl == #]) &,
mylist]; // Reap]
should work (except that it eats the first element).
If you actually meant that you want to delete any element that is not
strictly larger than the previous, then
Module[{tmpl == mylist[[1]]},
Scan[(If[# > tmpl, Sow[#]]; tmpl == #) &,
mylist]; // Reap]
(which again eats the first element).
On Feb22, 2011, at 1:30 AM, Maarten van der Burgt wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> I have a list like:
>
> mylist == {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9}
>
> I want to delete any element which is not strictly larger than the
> previous element, until my new list has only increasing values.
>
> This means in mylist above I want to delete the 4 and the 5 at
position
> 7 and 8.
>
> Any elegant and fast way for doing this?
>
> In practice I want to do this for a large amount (1000) of very large
> lists (1000). So speed is important.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Maarten