RE: Find last NZ in list
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- Subject: [mg46114] RE: [mg46102] Find last NZ in list
- From: "Florian Jaccard" <florian.jaccard at eiaj.ch>
- Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2004 04:01:57 -0500 (EST)
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Does this do it ?
findLastNonZero[liste_] :=
If[Position[(StringMatchQ[#1, "0"] & ) /@
ToString /@ liste, False] != {},
Last[Position[(StringMatchQ[#1, "0"] & ) /@
ToString /@ liste, False]][[1]], 0]
F.Jaccard
-----Message d'origine-----
De : Carlos Felippa [mailto:carlos at colorado.edu]
Envoyé : ven., 6. février 2004 10:15
À : mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
Objet : [mg46102] Find last NZ in list
This is kind of an "esthetics" question. In a program I am writing
I need to find the last nonzero entry of a 1D list millions of
times. For example FindLastNonzero[{1,2,3,4,0,a,b-b,0,0}] -> 6,
and FindLastNonzero[{0,0,0,0,0,0,0}] -> 0.
Here are two ugly C-style implementations:
FindLastNonzero[a_]:=Module[{n=Length[a]},
For [i=n,i>0,i--, If [a[[i]]==0,Continue[],Return[i],Return[i]]];
Return[0]];
FindLastNonzero[a_]:=Module[{n=Length[a]},
For [i=n,i>0,i--, If [a[[i]]!=0,Return[i],Continue[i],Return[i]]];
Return[0]];
Is there a built-in function, or something more elegant,
available to do this job? Find only works for text streams.
Note that the If case "cannot tell if entry is NZ" is important for
symbolic lists. That case should be evaluated as NZ.