Re: How Do You Reduce Multiple Elements in a List?
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- Subject: [mg33889] Re: How Do You Reduce Multiple Elements in a List?
- From: Erich Mueller <emueller at pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2002 06:14:27 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Ohio State University
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reduce[lst_] := {First[#], Length[#]} & /@ Split[lst]
On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Bob Harris wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> This seems like such a simple thing, yet I've search through the big book
> trying to figure it out. Perhaps someone can help me...
>
> Given a list of integers that generally contains the same number many times,
> I'd like to reduce it to a list that just gives me the number/count pairs.
> For example, I'd like to convert the list
> {1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4}
> into
> {{1,5}, {2,3}, (4,6}}
>
> Is there a built-in function to do this? Seems like a histogramming
> operation, but I get no useful matches from ?*Hist*.
>
> Thanks,
> Bob H
>
>
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