Re: Select All Lists Where Any Element is a Given Value
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- Subject: [mg96626] Re: Select All Lists Where Any Element is a Given Value
- From: Albert Retey <awnl at gmx-topmail.de>
- Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:28:44 -0500 (EST)
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Gregory Lypny wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> Suppose I have the list
>
> X = {{1, 2, 3}, {8, NA, 20}, {-7, 9, NA}},
>
> where NA is a string, although it need not be. How can I use Select
> to pull out all lists in X where NA appears in any element? In this
> example, I want to pull out the second and third list.
>
> Regards,
>
> Gregory
Not really sure what you want, but this gives you all lists that don't
contain NA:
Select[X, FreeQ[#, NA] &]
while this gives you all lists that do contain NA:
Select[X, ! FreeQ[#, NA] &]
the above look for the symbol NA, if you want the string "NA", that will
work just as well:
Select[X, ! FreeQ[#, "NA"] &]
and if you don't care whether its a string or a symbol:
Select[X, ! FreeQ[#, "NA" | NA] &]
you should also consider to select depending on whether something does
contain numeric data only, which is in many cases what one really wants
and can be done with something like:
Select[X, VectorQ[#, NumericQ] &]
or
Select[X, ! VectorQ[#, NumericQ] &]
hth,
albert