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Re: Need to reduce 2 lists so that only {x,y} pairs with same x remain

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  • Subject: [mg24172] Re: Need to reduce 2 lists so that only {x,y} pairs with same x remain
  • From: Brian Higgins <bghiggins at ucdavis.edu>
  • Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 22:50:53 -0400 (EDT)
  • References: <8jc73k$dg3@smc.vnet.net>
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Chuck, Here is one way this can be done:

In[71]:=
DeleteCases[(Flatten[Cases[data2, {#1[[1]], _}]] & ) /@
   data1, {}]

Out[71]=
{{1, 2}, {2, 3}, {3, 4}, {4, 5}}

Cheers,

Brian



:In article <8jc73k$dg3 at smc.vnet.net>,
  materialsscientist at my-deja.com wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have 2 lists of data:
>
> for example
> data1={{1,1},{1.5,1.5},{2,2},{3,3},{4,4},{5,5}}
>
> data2={{1,2},{2,3},{3,4},{4,5},{6,7},{7,8}}
>
> I want to do a point by point comparision, so I
> need to reduce both data1 and data2 so that
> common x data in the {x,y} pairs for each list
> remain.
>
> Thus the lists should look like this:
>
> data1={{1,1},{2,2},{3,3},{4,4}}
> data2={{1,2},{2,3},{3,4},{4,5}}
>
> What function(s) would to something like this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chuck
>
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>


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