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Re: DeleteCases and multiple patterns

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  • Subject: [mg93966] Re: DeleteCases and multiple patterns
  • From: Bill Rowe <readnews at sbcglobal.net>
  • Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 06:58:09 -0500 (EST)

On 11/29/08 at 4:29 AM, guerom00 at gmail.com (guerom00) wrote:

>I have, say a list of list. Each element is a list of length 3 i.e.

>myList={{x1,y1,z1},{x2,y2,z2},...{xN,yN,zN}}

>Now, let's say I want to delete from this list the element which
>have x=2 and 3 using DeleteCases. This works :

>DeleteCase[myList,{2,_,_}] DeleteCases[myList,{3,_,_}]

>but I would like to use

>DeleteCases[myList,{{2,_,_},{3,_,_}}]

>and this does not work...

>How do I combine multiple patterns in DeleteCases ?

Rather than trying to use multiple patterns, try using a single
pattern using Alternatives. That is

DeleteCases[myList, {Aternatives@@{2,3},__}]

or

DeleteCases[myList, {2 | 3,__}]

will do what you want


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