Re: Using Select with arrays? (Relative newbie)
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- Subject: [mg54243] Re: Using Select with arrays? (Relative newbie)
- From: David Bailey <dave at Remove_Thisdbailey.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 21:50:36 -0500 (EST)
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Hi,
Select selects using a boolean function, Cases (which is what you want
here) selects by pattern:
c=5;
d=6;
data={
{1,1,"string1",c,d} ,
{1,2,"string2",c,d} ,
{1,3,"string3",c,d} ,
{1,4,"string4",c,d} ,
{2,1,"string1",c,d} ,
{2,2,"string2",c,d} ,
{3,1,"string3",c,d},
{4,1,"string2",c,d} ,
{4,2,"string4",c,d}};
Cases[data, {1, _Integer, _String, _Integer, _Integer}]
{{1, 1, string1, 5, 4}, {1, 2, string2, 5, 4}, {
1, 3, string3, 5, 4}, {1, 4, string4, 5, 4}}
Note - as written, your strings were not quoted and there were some
commas missing - I guess just typos. Also, c and d required values -
otherwise the pattern _Integer will not match. If this is a problem,
just use the pattern _ in those positions, and it will match anything.
David Bailey
dbaileyconsultancy.co.uk