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Re: Replace non-numeric values in a list

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  • Subject: [mg88795] Re: Replace non-numeric values in a list
  • From: Bill Rowe <readnews at sbcglobal.net>
  • Date: Fri, 16 May 2008 05:36:08 -0400 (EDT)

On 5/15/08 at 7:50 AM, aelsabbagh at gmail.com (Adel Elsabbagh) wrote:

>I have a list that contains numeric and non-numeric values list = {
>a, 1, 2, b, 3}; How can I replace non-numeric values with zeros?

Here is one way to do what you want

In[12]:= list /. Thread[DeleteCases[list, _?NumericQ] -> 0]

Out[12]= {0,1,2,0}


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