Re: Working with strings
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- Subject: [mg31962] Re: [mg31940] Working with strings
- From: Omega Consulting <omega_consulting at yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 04:21:28 -0500 (EST)
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At 12:08 AM 12/13/2001, Brian Higgins wrote:
>I have a list of string characters that I would like to group in a
>particular way. The list has the following structure:
>
>{n UpperCase Characters, x, m UpperCase Characters}
>
>Here is an example:
>
>myString={"S", "T", "M", "x", "R", "K", "P", "G"}
>
>Now I would like to form the following groupings:
>
>{"SxR", "SxK", "SxP", "SxG", "TxR", "TxK", "TxP", "TxG", "MxR", "MxK",
>"MxP", \
>"MxG"}
>
>A brute force way of doing this is
>
>subString[n_] := Split[myString, UpperCaseQ[#2] && UpperCaseQ[#1]
>&][[n]];
>
>Flatten[Outer[StringJoin, Outer[StringJoin, subString[1],
>subString[2]],
> subString[3]]]
>
>Does anyone have any elegant way of doing this with perhaps using
>replacement rules?
>
>Thanks much,
>
>
>Brian
I don't know about elegant, but here's another way to do it.
{x,y}=myString/.{a___,"x",b___}->{{a},{b}};
Flatten[Outer[(#1<>"x"<>#2)&,x,y]]
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