Re: How to extract functions from a list and call them with any argument?
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- Subject: [mg65943] Re: How to extract functions from a list and call them with any argument?
- From: Bill Rowe <readnewsciv at earthlink.net>
- Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 06:01:54 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
On 4/23/06 at 6:17 AM, dmp55 at sympatico.ca wrote:
>I have a list of functions, i.e.,
>funclist = {Sin[x], x^3, Cos[x]^2}.
>I can extract each of the functions, like
>In[1]:=funclist[[1]] Out[1]=Sin[x]
>, but I don't know how to call these functions with a general
>argument. If I type
>In[2]:=funclist[t][[1]]
>, I get
>Out[2]=t
>instead of Sin[t] (or t^3 or Cos[t]^2)
>What I would like is to extract a function from the list and to call
>it with any argument, as it was defined in a standard way:
>f[x_]:=Sin[x].
One way to do what you want would be to use pure functions when you set up funclist, i.e.,
funclist = {Sin@# &, #^3 &, Cos[#]^2 &};
then you can do
In[2]:=
funclist[[1]][x]
Out[2]=
Sin[x]
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