Re: How to remove external parentheses from a list
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- From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
- Date: Sat, 17 Aug 2013 02:07:23 -0400 (EDT)
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One way is to use Sequence with Apply (@@). For example:
Integrate[x1 + x2^2, Sequence @@ {{x1, a, b}, {x2, c, d}}]
On Aug 16, 2013, at 7:06 AM, Samuel Mark Young <sy81 at sussex.ac.uk> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> I'm looking for an easy way to remove the external parentheses from a list. The list contains integration variables and their respective limits, it currently looks something like this:
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> {{x1,a,b},{x2,c,d},...,{xn,y,z}}
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> However, the Integrate (or NIntegrate function) in Mathematica wants me to write it like this:
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> {x1,a,b},{x2,c,d},...,{xn,y,z}
> i.e. The external parentheses have been removed
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> I've looked around online and seen suggestions for replacing the curly brackets "{" with a blank space " ", or using Apply (@@) but can't work out the correct syntax.
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> Thanks for any help and advice!
>
> Regards,
> Sam
>
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Murray Eisenberg
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- How to remove external parentheses from a list
- From: Samuel Mark Young <sy81@sussex.ac.uk>
- How to remove external parentheses from a list