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Re: List Manipulation



In article <69nbfq$89h@smc.vnet.net>, Paul.Hanson@colorado.edu wrote:

> Hola!
>   Hope you're all doing well.  If I have a list of n lists, and want to
> get rid of all the even ones how would I go about doing  this?  That
> is, {{n1},{n2},.....{2n}} converted to {{n1},{n3}...{2n-1}}. I tried
> using the various procedures in Wolfram's book, but nothing seems to
> work (ie, Delete, Take, etc.).  Thanks for the help.
> 
> Paul Hanson
> 
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Here is an example of a solution built up in stages

In[1]:=
temp={{n1},{n2},{n3},{n4}}

Out[1]=
{{n1},{n2},{n3},{n4}}

In[2]:=
Partition[temp,2]

Out[2]=
{{{n1},{n2}},{{n3},{n4}}}

In[3]:=
Transpose[Partition[temp,2]]

Out[3]=
{{{n1},{n3}},{{n2},{n4}}}

In[4]:=
Transpose[Partition[temp,2]][[1]]

Out[4]=
{{n1},{n3}}

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