Re: Is it a bug?
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg17685] Re: Is it a bug?
- From: Harald Giese <giese at dkrz.de>
- Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 23:59:02 -0400
- Organization: Institut fuer Meereskunde, Universitaet Hamburg
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"F. Mittermayr" wrote:
>
> A = {1 + Sqrt[2] I , 1 + 2 * 3 I};
> Cases[A, _Complex]
>
> Out[1] = {1+6 I}
>
> Isn't it a strange result?
No, because "Cases" lookes only at the first level by default;
"Cases[A, _Complex, Infinity]" would return what you expected.
To see the structure of "A" type: "FullForm[A]".
Regards,
Harald
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