Re: ReplacePart except first element?
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- Subject: [mg102093] Re: [mg102053] ReplacePart except first element?
- From: "Elton Kurt TeKolste" <tekolste at fastmail.us>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2009 05:10:13 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <200907280603.CAA14703@smc.vnet.net>
Exactly: ReplacePart has no side effects. All you need to do is to
replace x by the result:
In[187]:= h[x_List, a_Integer] := ReplacePart[x, a -> x[[a]] + 1]
In[188]:= x = {1, 2, 3}
Out[188]= {1, 2, 3}
In[189]:= x = h[x, 2]
Out[189]= {1, 3, 3}
In[190]:= x
Out[190]= {1, 3, 3}
(Note that I did not see the problem that you did with dropping the
first element...)
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 02:03 -0400, "mokambo"
<alexandrepassosalmeida at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was trying to modify a list by adding 1 to a certain element.
> I can't understand the following result:
>
> h[x_List, a_Integer] := ReplacePart[x, a -> x[[a]] + 1]
>
> h[{1, 2, 3}, 2] gives {,3,3} (what happened to the first element?) but
> h[{1, 2, 3}, 1] gives {2,2,3} as expected.
>
> Eventually I changed to:
>
> h[x_List, a_Integer] := MapAt[Function[y, y + 1], x, a]
>
> but the ReplacePart version still puzzles me.
> Is it because ReplacePart creates a copy instead of altering inline
> like x[[a]] = val does?
>
>
>
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- ReplacePart except first element?