Map, List
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- Subject: [mg55066] Map, List
- From: Steve Gray <stevebg at adelphia.net>
- Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 04:20:42 -0500 (EST)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
I wanted to convert
{a,b,c} to
{{a},{b},{c}}, (just an example)
and it occured to me that since List[xx] = {xx}, I could do
ml=Map[List,{a,b,c}] and get
ml={{a},{b},{c}},
making List in this case the inverse of Flatten. Now,assuming a,b,c have appropriate integer values,
I can do
Delete[ggon, ml]
where ggon is a list from which I want to delete an arbitrary set of list members.
Of course this worked. My only problem is that I might not have thought of this obvious (in
retrospect) operation. Using List as a function is not mentioned in any of my several books. What
general principle applies that makes all such things functions?
Thank you.
Steve Gray
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