Re: Sum pattern
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- Subject: [mg128276] Re: Sum pattern
- From: Bill Rowe <readnews at sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2012 23:38:15 -0400 (EDT)
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On 10/3/12 at 3:07 AM, dsnead6 at charter.net (Dave Snead) wrote: >I'm trying to put together a rule whose left hand side is a sum of >arbitrary length whose elements all have the same head f. >For example: >In[4]:= x = f[a1, s] + f[a2, s] + f[a3, s] >Out[4]= f[a1, s] + f[a2, s] + f[a3, s] >In[6]:= y = f[First /@ x, s] >Out[6]= f[a1 + a2 + a3, s] >which is what I want. >However when I turn this into a rule >In[7]:= z = x /. (p : Plus[__f]) -> f[First /@ p, s] >Out[7]= f[f[a1, s], s] + f[f[a2, s], s] + f[f[a3, s], s] >Why isn't z equal to y? Because In[2]:= x = f[a1, s] + f[a2, s] + f[a3, s]; MatchQ[x, (p : Plus[__f])] Out[3]= False >How can I make this rule work? Try: In[4]:= x /. Plus[y___] :> f[First /@ y, s] Out[4]= f(a1+a2+a3,s) Note the use of RuleDelayed :> rather than Rule ->