Re: How to "search" in a matrix?
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- Subject: [mg60906] Re: How to "search" in a matrix?
- From: Peter Pein <petsie at dordos.net>
- Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2005 04:06:04 -0400 (EDT)
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Renan schrieb:
> I have this matrix:
>
> matr = {{a, b, 1}, {c, d, 2}, {e, f, 3}}
>
> I'm trying to do a "search" in a matrix. The "real" matrix will contain strings.
> How to "search" for a given value in a matrix and return all lines that have it?
>
> 'Select' seems to handle only lists - and this would require a
> Flatten, probably making my code too complicated and maybe slow (the
> real matrix will contain something like 100 elements - weather data).
>
> Thanks.
>
Hi Renan,
a matrix _is_ a list (of lists):
In[1]:= matr={{a,b,1},{c,d,2},{e,f,3}};
In[2]:= MemberRow[m_,el_]:=Select[m,MemberQ[#,el]&]
In[3]:= MemberRow[matr,f]
Out[3]= {{e,f,3}}
In[4]:= MemberRow[Append[matr,{b,a,4}],b]
Out[4]= {{a,b,1},{b,a,4}}
Peter