Mutiple delete in lists
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- Subject: [mg360] Mutiple delete in lists
- From: gmk at pegasos.ccsr.uiuc.edu (Gottfried Mayer-Kress)
- Date: Mon, 26 Dec 94 21:31:32 -0600
According to the Mathematica book 1.8.6 the command:
Delete[{1,2,3,4,5},2]
will produce
{1,3,4,5}
and:
Delete[{1,2,3,4,5},{2,3}]]
should produce
{1,4,5}
but I get the error message:
Delete::part: Part {2, 3} of {1, 2, 3, 4, 5} does not exist.
I am using V. 2.2 on NeXT.
Thanks,
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Gottfried Mayer-Kress
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