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Re: MapThread and If

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  • Subject: [mg68039] Re: MapThread and If
  • From: Jean-Marc Gulliet <jeanmarc.gulliet at gmail.com>
  • Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 05:37:31 -0400 (EDT)
  • Organization: The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
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Arkadiusz Majka wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Of course
> 
> MapThread[If[#1 == #2, 0, tr] &, {{1, 2, 3}, {2, 2, 4}}]
> 
> I get
> 
> {tr, 0, tr}
> 
> and for
> 
> MapThread[If[#1 == #2, 0, tr] &, {{1, 2, 3}, {2, 2, {3, 4}}}]
> 
> I get
> 
> {tr, 0, If[3 == {3, 4}, 0, tr]}
> 
> How I can build in above MapThread expression information that if 'a'
> is equal to any element from the list {a,b,c,d} the result is 0. In
> above example we have If[3=={3,4},0,tr] what I want to be 0, because 3
> is equal to an element belonging to {3,4}.
> 
> Thx,
> 
> Arek
> 
Hi Arek,

What about the following expression?

MapThread[If[Length[Intersection[Flatten[{#1}], Flatten[{#2}]]] > 0, 0, 
tr] & , {{1, 2, 3}, {2, 2, {3, 4}}}]

returns

{tr, 0, 0}

Since Intersection works only with lists, we transform each variable in 
list to avoid atomic expression and then we Flatten them as one 
dimensional lists.

HTH,
Jean-Marc


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