Re: Drop elements from list
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- Subject: [mg94189] Re: [mg94161] Drop elements from list
- From: "Adriano Pascoletti" <adriano.pascoletti at gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2008 19:57:14 -0500 (EST)
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Sigmund,
if L denotes a list of pairwise disjoint intervals a folded Drop
solves the problem:
Fold[Drop[#1, #2] &, a, Reverse@Sort[L]]
Test:
In[3]:= L = {{2, 5}, {7, 10}}; Fold[Drop[#1, #2] & , 100 + Range[20],
Reverse[Sort[L]]]
Out[3]= {101, 106, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119, 120}
Adriano Pascoletti
2008/12/6 SigmundV <sigmundv at gmail.com>:
> Dear group,
>
> Consider a list of length, say, 20:
>
> a = RandomReal[{},20];
>
> How would you then drop/delete elements, say, 2-5 and 7-10 from this
> list? The built-in function Drop does not seem to include such a
> possibility. I should add that I do not have access to Mathematica 7,
> so any solution should work in version 6.
>
> Kind regards,
> Sigmund
>
>
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