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Re: Part

  • Subject: [mg2895] Re: Part
  • From: wagner at bullwinkle.cs.Colorado.EDU (Dave Wagner)
  • Date: 5 Jan 1996 03:47:19 -0600
  • Approved: usenet@wri.com
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  • Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
  • Sender: mj at wri.com

In article <4cgrsc$im4 at dragonfly.wri.com>,
Hans Steffani <hans.steffani at e-technik.tu-chemnitz.de> wrote:
>w={{1,2,3},{4,5,6},{7,8,9}}
>npos={2,1}
>
>npos is the position of the element I need.
>
>w[[npos]]
>
>does not work, as it returns the second and the first
>line.

This same question came up a couple of weeks ago.  You want
to use:

	w[[Sequence @@ npos]]

Sequence is an undocumented function that obliterates the head
of whatever it is applied to.  In this case, it obliterates the
List wrapper, leaving a sequence of two integers.


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