Re: Parts of a list
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- Subject: [mg15457] Re: Parts of a list
- From: Rolf Mertig <rolf at mertig.com>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 04:21:58 -0500
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Hossein Kazemi wrote:
>
> I have a list (matrix) that looks like this
>
> x={{1,0},{2.5, .5},{3,0},{0,2}}
>
> Now I want to eliminate those vectors that have zero for the second
> case. That is, I want to get
>
> {{2.5, .5},{0,2}}.
>
> Is there a quick way of doing this?
> I tried to apply Select to this but could not get it to work.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Hossein Kazemi
> UMass
> kazemi at som.umass.edu
In[1]:= x={{1,0},{2.5, .5},{3,0},{0,2}};
In[2]:= Select[x, MatchQ[#, {_,a_/;a=!=0}]&]
Out[2]= {{2.5, 0.5}, {0, 2}}
In[3]:= Cases[x, {_, a_/;a=!=0}]
Out[3]= {{2.5, 0.5}, {0, 2}}
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