Re: DeleteCases and multiple patterns
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- Subject: [mg93964] Re: DeleteCases and multiple patterns
- From: Albert Retey <awnl at gmx-topmail.de>
- Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 06:57:47 -0500 (EST)
- References: <ggr217$e21$1@smc.vnet.net>
Hi,
>
> 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 ?
I think you can't, but there is no need to do that, since you can
formulate patterns that match more than one case with Alternatives,
or its short form | . So this should do what you want:
DeleteCases[myList,{2,_,_}|{3,_,_}]
or, in this case:
DeleteCases[myList,{2|3,_,_}]
hth,
albert