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Re: Position function

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  • Subject: [mg55573] Re: Position function
  • From: Torsten Coym <torsten.coym at eas.iis.fraunhofer.de>
  • Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 03:21:07 -0500 (EST)
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  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

konstantpi at mail15.com wrote:
> suppose i have a List:
> a={{1,3,1,2,1},{5,6,1,1,3,1}}
> how i could know the positions of "1" in every sublist , i could use Position[a
> [[1]],1] and Position[a[[2]],1]
> but i want a one formula to give me {{1,3,5},{3,4,6}}
> 
> the second question:
> using Position[a,1] will give:
> {{1, 1}, {1, 3}, {1, 5}, {2, 3}, {2, 4}, {2, 6}}
> in general how to extract only the second item from every sublist so the output 
> will be;
> {1,3,5,3,4,6}
> thanks
> konst.
> 

What about:

(Join @@ Position[a[[#1]], 1] & ) /@
   Level[Position[a, _List], {-1}]


{{1, 3, 5, 6}, {3, 4, 6}}
???

Torsten


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