Re: Testing the Head of List Elements
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- Subject: [mg25232] Re: [mg25200] Testing the Head of List Elements
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <andrzej at tuins.ac.jp>
- Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 04:47:11 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Here is probably the most natural way:
In[1]:=
ls = {dog, "dog", 1, Pi}
Out[1]=
{dog, "dog", 1, Pi}
In[2]:=
Cases[ls, _String] // InputForm
Out[2]//InputForm=
{"dog"}
on 00.9.15 3:21 PM, Marshall Bartlett at mgb_news at hotmail.com wrote:
> I'm something of a newbie with Mathematica; please excuse my ignorance.
>
> I am looking for a clever way to select elements from a list based on their
> type (Head). Specifically, I want to extract all the elements of type
> dtring from a list of elements of different types (string, number,
> character, etc.).
>
> Any suggestions?
>
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> University of Utah
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