Re: Pattern matching in functions
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- Subject: [mg54403] Re: [mg54379] Pattern matching in functions
- From: Bob Hanlon <hanlonr at cox.net>
- Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2005 00:08:03 -0500 (EST)
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Cases[l^4*a[b][l]+l*a[c][l],
a[y_][_]->y,{0,Infinity}]
{b,c}
Bob Hanlon
>
> From: Maximilian Ulbrich <mulbrich at berkeley.edu>
To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> Date: 2005/02/19 Sat AM 02:32:49 EST
> To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
> Subject: [mg54403] [mg54379] Pattern matching in functions
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to find subexpressions using Cases.
> In the following case, I expected to find a[b] and a[c] and therefore
> get {b,c} as the result. However, I get {l,l}.
> What happens and how can I solve this?
>
> Cases[l^4*a[b][l] + l*a[c][l], x_a[y_] -> y, {0, Infinity}]
>
> Thanks,
> Max
>
>