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Re: Filtering a list of list for certain elements that are neighbours

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  • Subject: [mg88841] Re: Filtering a list of list for certain elements that are neighbours
  • From: Bill Rowe <readnews at sbcglobal.net>
  • Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 05:15:11 -0400 (EDT)

On 5/18/08 at 7:34 AM, stevensiew2 at gmail.com (Steven Siew) wrote:

>I have a list of lists

>mylist={{a,b,c},{a,c,b},{b,a,c},{b,c,a},{c,a,b},{c,b,a}}

>I want to filter out all lists that have "a being a neighbor to b".

>I am looking for the following result.

>{{a,c,b},{b,c,a}}

Here is one way

In[13]:= Fold[
  DeleteCases[#1, #2] &, mylist, {{___, a, b, ___}, {___, b, a, ___}}]

Out[13]= {{a, c, b}, {b, c, a}}


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