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Re: Mapping tag-value lists to a third

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  • Subject: [mg132455] Re: Mapping tag-value lists to a third
  • From: Carl K Woll <carlw at wolfram.com>
  • Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 05:27:25 -0400 (EDT)
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On 3/17/2014 1:27 AM, carlos.felippa%colorado.edu at gtempaccount.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have 2 lists of equal length such as
>
> tag={0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1};  val={f1,f2,f3,f4,f5,f6,f7,f8}
>
> and want to produce a third:
>
> tagval={f2,f6,f8}
>
> with length Count[tag,1] containing the entries of val marked by 1-tags. Should be
> something efficient, since the source lists may be large (10^6 to 10^7).  Thanks.
>

I think Pick is what you want:

In[366]:= Pick[val, tag, 1]

Out[366]= {f2, f6, f8}

Carl Woll



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