Re: ReplacePart?
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- Subject: [mg10505] Re: ReplacePart?
- From: "P.J. Hinton" <paulh@wolfram.com>
- Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 02:22:53 -0500
- Organization: "Wolfram Research, Inc."
Scott Morrison <scott@morrison.fl.net.au>
> I have a list of pairs of the form:
> gt={{3,5},{{},6},{7,{}},{{},{}},{{},56},{{},3}};
>
> The empty lists inside pairs are being used as placeholders. I want to
> replace these with the elements of b: b={a1,a2,a3,a4,a5,a6}; hopefully
> resulting in the list
> {{3,5},{a1,6},{7,a2},{a3,a4},{a5,56},{a6,3}}
>
> I had thought that ReplacePart could do this, as it says:
> "ReplacePart[expr, new, pos, npos] replaces parts at positions pos in
> expr by parts at positions npos in new."
Give this a try:
In[1]:=
gt={{3,5},{{},6},{7,{}},{{},{}},{{},56},{{},3}};
In[2]:=
b={a1,a2,a3,a4,a5,a6};
In[3]:=
q = Transpose @ {b,Position[gt,{}]}
Out[3]=
{{a1,{2,1}},{a2,{3,2}},{a3,{4,1}},{a4,{4,2}},{a5,{5,1}},{a6,{6,1}}}
In[4]:=
Fold[ReplacePart[#1,Sequence @@ #2]&,gt,q]
Out[4]=
{{3,5},{a1,6},{7,a2},{a3,a4},{a5,56},{a6,3}}
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P.J. Hinton
Mathematica Programming Group paulh@wolfram.com Wolfram
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