ReplacePart question
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg13065] ReplacePart question
- From: walter-seaman at uiowa.edu (Walter Seaman)
- Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1998 16:45:06 -0400
- Organization: The University of Iowa
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
hello,
Here is what m'ca ReplacePart is supposed to do according to the online
help and the manual:
"ReplacePart[expr, new, pos, npos] replaces parts at positions pos in
expr by parts at positions npos in new."
For example:
ReplacePart[{a, b, c,d},{x,y},{{1},{4}},2] gives output
{y,b,c,y}
which is ok. I cannot get m'ca to replace selected parts of expr with
selected parts of new. For example, suppose I want to take the list
{a,b,c,d} and replace a with y and x with b. It seems I should be able
to use the command
ReplacePart[{a, b, c,d},{x,y},{{1},{4}},{2,1}]
but the output is
{{x,y}\[LeftDoubleBracket]2,1\[RightDoubleBracket],b,
c,{x,y}\[LeftDoubleBracket]2,1\[RightDoubleBracket]}
i.e. m'ca is looking for {x,y}[[1,2]] (which is not defined) and trying
to replace it in positions 1 and 4.
If I try
ReplacePart[{a, b, c,d},{x,y},{{1},{4}},{{2},{1}}]
I still get the output
{{x,y}\[LeftDoubleBracket]{2},{1}\[RightDoubleBracket],b,
c,{x,y}\[LeftDoubleBracket]{2},{1}\[RightDoubleBracket]}
Can anyone tell me how to accomplish this selective replacement? Thanks,
W.Seaman