Efficient way to merge lists--Programming help
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- Subject: [mg12708] Efficient way to merge lists--Programming help
- From: Joel Cannon <cannon at alpha.centenary.edu>
- Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 02:20:59 -0400
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Cam someone suggest better ways to accomplish the following?
I have two lists containing triplets--test is a rectangular array of
triplets {x,y,z} (e.g. Dimensions {4,40,3}) and test2 is an array of
triplets (e.g. Dimensions {50,3}). test2 is to replace equivalent
elements in test (when the x and y values are equal--the test2 z values
have been calculated more accurately).
The task can be understood to be:
1. Given a triplet {x_i,y_i,z_i} from test2, find the position in test
which has the same {x_i,y_i,_}.
2. Replace the element in test by the triplet from test2.
I resorted to a loop after I decided that it would take me too much time
to figure out a better, more elegant solution. Here is what I did:
For[i=1,i<=Length[test2],i++,
test = ReplacePart[test,test2[[i]],
test//Position[#,{test2[[i]][[1]],test2[[i]][[2]],_}]& //Flatten]];
Thanks for any help.
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