Re: Returning List Position w/o brackets
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- Subject: [mg29034] Re: [mg28990] Returning List Position w/o brackets
- From: Tomas Garza <tgarza01 at prodigy.net.mx>
- Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 01:48:10 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <200105240807.EAA04916@smc.vnet.net>
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
The problem is, of course, that you could obtain a list as the result of
Position. If there is only one of each kind, then Position returns a list
with only one element. It looks messy, but you may use Part to obtain that
unique element:
In[1]:=
letter[[ Flatten[ Position[ number, 2 ] ]]][[1]]
Out[1]=
b
Tomas Garza
Mexico City
----- Original Message -----
From: "brian" <polar at cloud9.net>
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Subject: [mg29034] [mg28990] Returning List Position w/o brackets
> Is there a way to have have the Position function return a value without
> the brackets.
>
> Say there are two lists,
> letter = {a,b,c,d} and number = {1,2,3,4}
>
> If I call letter[[2]] I get b
> but if I use letter[[ Flatten[ Position[ number, 2 ] ]
> ]] I get {b}
>
> I have several large lists that I am searching through and then
> need to print out the values and I would like to have the brackets
> removed from the text reports. I hve tried several different methods
> but nothing seems to work.
>
> Thank for any help Brian
>
>
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- Returning List Position w/o brackets
- From: brian <polar@cloud9.net>
- Returning List Position w/o brackets