Re: Scalars Instead of Lists with One Element
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- Subject: [mg83498] Re: Scalars Instead of Lists with One Element
- From: Jens-Peer Kuska <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:06:12 -0500 (EST)
- Organization: Uni Leipzig
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- Reply-to: kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de
Hi,
with:
x={2,7}
you get already
for x[[1]] 2 and for x[[2]] 7 and *not*
{1} or {7} ...
Regards
Jens
Gregory Lypny wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Say I have the list x={2, 7}. Is there a command I can use to get 2
> rather than {2} when I ask for x[[1]], and 7 rather than {7} when I
> ask for x[[2]]? Doing so would solve my problem with my tables being
> too deep to be able to cut and paste directly into the table objects
> of other applications like word processors and spread sheets.
>
> Regards,
>
> Gregory
>