Re: select 1st column element based on criteria in 2nd AND 3rd column
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- Subject: [mg124501] Re: select 1st column element based on criteria in 2nd AND 3rd column
- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 07:19:28 -0500 (EST)
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Your expression doesn't work because its syntax is wrong!
First, there's no such built-in function AND in Mathematica. There is a
function And, which in the present context you would probably want to
use by means of its input shortcut &&.
Second, if you use the Slot function (#), you need to construct a pure
function by terminating with a & symbol.
Thus:
Select[pairs, 5 >= #[[2]] >= 3 && 10 >= #[[3]] >= 7 &]
{{5, 3, 9}}
For clarity, the above Select expression means the same thing as:
Select[pairs, (5 >= #[[2]] >= 3 && 10 >= #[[3]] >= 7) &]
On 1/21/12 5:20 AM, hanciong awesome wrote:
> Hello all, suppose I have a table:
>
> pairs = {{1, 3, 4}, {2, 4, 6}, {3, 6, 7}, {4, 1, 8}, {5, 3, 9}, {6, 2,
> 10}, {7, 5, 11}, {8, 2, 13}, {2, 3, 4}, {5, 6, 7}}
>
> how to select rows for which the 2nd column is between 3 and 5, AND
> the 3rd column is between 7 and 10? So I want to do something similar
> to this:
>
> Select[pairs, 5>= #[[2]]>= 3& AND 10>= #[[3]]>= 7]
>
> but I just couldn't get it to work. what should I do? Thank you
>
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