the simplest way?
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- Subject: [mg16350] the simplest way?
- From: "Antoine Zahnd" <antoine.zahnd at iprolink.ch>
- Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 02:16:33 -0500
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hello,
I have two questions with lists, each time to avoid the Length function.
1) For example, how to write a function that will go thru the elements of a
list of
integers, and will return False as soon as an odd number is found, without
using
Length?
With Length it is easy, but not so clean ...
f[l_]:= Block[{k},For[k=1,k<=Length[l],k++,If[OddQ[l[[k]]],Return[True]]];
False];
2) Is it possible to write the following function without Length?
l={1,2,3};
Table[ReplacePart[l,l[[i]]-1,i],{i,1,Length[l]}]
{{0,2,3},{1,1,3},{1,2,2}}
More generally, is there a way to write something like:
(for x in l ... collect (f x) ) , and the collection of the (f x) are
returned
in a list?
I don't see how to write a Lisp style dolist function in Mathematica
without the Length!
Hope that the questions make sens ...
Thank you very much for your help.
antoine.zahnd at iprolink.ch
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