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Intersection problem

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  • Subject: [mg125962] Intersection problem
  • From: Cisco Lane <travlorf at yahoo.com>
  • Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2012 02:27:28 -0400 (EDT)
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I need to select out the elements of the first list whose first elements are contained in the second list. For example

first list: {{a,x},{b,y},{c,z}}

second list: {b,c,d}

result: {{b,y},{c,z}}

Is there a quick way to do this? Intersection, maybe somehow?



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