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Re: ReplaceAll in If Statement

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  • Subject: [mg19519] Re: ReplaceAll in If Statement
  • From: Brian Higgins <bghiggins at ucdavis.edu>
  • Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 03:00:39 -0400
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  • References: <7q20sl$q9i@smc.vnet.net>
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In article <7q20sl$q9i at smc.vnet.net>,
  "Tom Compton" <comptont at concentric.net> wrote:
> In the following sequence I expected z to evaluate to 1 in the
> Module.  It appears that the test in the module does not
> evaluate to either True or False.  I don't understand why.
> Can anyone explain?
>
> In[1]:=
> opList={a->True};
>
> In[2]:=
> test[opts___]:=Module[{},
> If[a /. {opts}, z=1, z=2, z=3];
> {a, z} /. {opts}]
>
 Tom,
The pesky problem is the pair of braces in the condition test:
a /. {opts}. Replace with a/.opts. With your expression, the output from
the replacement function is "{True}" instead of the required "True"

Regards Brian
> In[3]:=
> test[opList]
> Out[3]=
> {{True,3}}
>
> Tom Compton
>
>


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