Re: Selecting table rows
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- Subject: [mg66040] Re: Selecting table rows
- From: "Ray Koopman" <koopman at sfu.ca>
- Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 04:36:32 -0400 (EDT)
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Skirmantas wrote:
> I have a 2D-table whose first column contains the unique identifiers (ID) of each row (IDs can be any numbers). I need to delete all rows whose IDs are not members of another, control list.
>
> The following works, but I'm wondering if there is a shorter way to do this.
>
> TBL = {{1, 2, 3, 4}, {5, 6, 7, 8}, {9, 10, 11, 12}, {13, 14, 15, 16}, {17, 18, 19, 20}};
>
> CNTR = {1, 9, 17};
>
> Map[Part[TBL, #]&, Flatten[Map[Position[Transpose[TBL][[1]], #]&, CNTR]]]
>
> Thanks --
>
> Skirmantas
There are faster ways to do this, but the one that I suspect is least
likely to have you scratching your head and asking yourself "What was
I doing here?" when you look at the code some months from now, is
Select[TBL,MemberQ[CNTR,#[[1]]]&]