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Re: newbie myHead question

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  • Subject: [mg47042] Re: [mg47017] newbie myHead question
  • From: Bob Walker <walkerbg at ieee.org>
  • Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 05:18:55 -0500 (EST)
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Try
n = Apply[myHead, Transpose[m]]

bgw

János wrote:

>I have
>
>m = {{a, b}, {a, b}, {a, b}}
>
>When I apply Transpose to it, I will have
>
>Transpose[m]
>
>{{a, a, a}, {b, b, b}}
>
>The FullForm of it is
>
>List[List[a, a, a], List[b, b, b]]
>
>Now, if I do
>
>n = Apply[myHead, m]
>
>I get
>
>myHead[{a, b}, {a, b}, {a, b}]
>
>If I apply Transpose to it, I get
>
>Transpose[n]
>
>Transpose[myHead[{a, b}, {a, b}, {a, b}]]
>
>The FullForm of it
>
>Transpose[myHead[List[a, b], List[a, b], List[a, b]]]
>
>which is not that I need.  I need
>
>myHead[{a,a,a},{b,b,b}]
>
>or
>
>myHead[List[a, a, a], List[b, b, b]]
>
>What am I missing ?  What should I do to get myHead[{a,a,a},{b,b,b}] ?
>
>Thanks ahead,
>
>János
>-------------------------------------------------
>clear perl code is better than unclear awk code; but NOTHING comes 
>close to unclear perl code
>http://www.faqs.org/faqs/computer-lang/awk/faq/
>
>
>  
>


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