Re: Problem with matching.
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- Subject: [mg53936] Re: [mg53907] Problem with matching.
- From: yehuda ben-shimol <benshimo at bgu.ac.il>
- Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 04:12:13 -0500 (EST)
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Hi,
you should write
F[{x, 2, c}]F[{x, 1, f}] /. F[{x___, a_, y___}]F[{z___, a_, w___}] :> yes
and get True
yehuda
Josef Karthauser wrote:
>Can someone tell me why this doesn't match?
>
>F[{x, 2, c}]F[{x, 1, f}] /. F[{___, a_, ___}]F[{___, a_, ___}] :> yes
>
>I'm expecting 'yes' to be returned if any of the list arguments to F[]
>contain the same value. It doesn't match however; what am I doing
>wrong?
>
>Thanks,
>Joe
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- Problem with matching.
- From: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>
- Problem with matching.