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Re: There must be a better way!

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  • Subject: [mg2342] Re: There must be a better way!
  • From: zizza at willamette.edu (Frank Zizza)
  • Date: Wed, 25 Oct 1995 02:13:25 -0400
  • Organization: Willamette University, Salem, OR, USA

In article <DGxuMB.G69 at wri.com> pehowland at taz.dra.hmg.gb () writes:
> 
> Hi.  I'm trying to write a function that partitions a list into
> segments of length given by another length. eg. 
> 	Given l1 = {A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J}
> 	and   l2 = {2,3,4,1}
> I want to be able to say
> 	In[1] := MyPartition[l1, l2]
> and get
> 	Out[1] = {{A,B}, {C,D,E}, {F,G,H,I}, {J}}
> 
> I've racked my brains, but have been unable to think of an elegant
> solution, but instead managed the following Fortran-like function:
> 
> MyPartition[list1_, list2_] :=
> Module[{ans,l},
> 	ans={};
> 	l = list1;
> 	Do	[
> 		AppendTo[ans, Take[l, list2[[i]]]];
> 		l = Drop[l, list2[[i]]],
> 		{i, Length[list2]}
> 		];
> 	ans
> 	]
> 
> Someone put me out of my misery!  How can I code this in a more  
efficient
> manner?!
> 
> Paul E Howland                                  Tel. +44 (0)1684 895767
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PEHOWLAND at DRA.HMG.GB
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>  
=========================================================================
Try this.

janus> math
Mathematica 2.2 for NeXT
Copyright 1988-93 Wolfram Research, Inc.
 -- NeXT graphics initialized -- 

In[1]:= MyPartition[list1_, list2_] := 
        Map[ Take[ list1, #]&, 
             FoldList[ Plus, {1, First[list2]}, Partition[list2, 2, 1]
           ]                          
        ]

In[2]:= MyPartition[{A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J}, {2,3,4,1}]

Out[2]= {{A, B}, {C, D, E}, {F, G, H, I}, {J}}







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