Re: identical rows in tables
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- Subject: [mg97610] Re: identical rows in tables
- From: Szabolcs Horvát <szhorvat at gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 04:57:10 -0500 (EST)
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King, Peter R wrote:
> I have a table of values
>
> e.g.{{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8}, {1, 4, 6, 2, 8, 3, 7, 5}, {1, 4, 2, 6, 3,
> 8, 5, 7}, {1, 3, 2, 5, 4, 7, 6, 8}, {1, 3, 5, 2, 7, 4, 8, 6}, {1, 2,
> 4, 3, 6, 5, 8, 7}, {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8}}
>
> and want to check if any rows are identical (so there are none in the above=
> - I can remove last or first row which are supposed to be the same).
>
> But in the following {{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8}, {1, 4, 6, 2, 8, 3, 7, 5}, {=
> 1, 4, 2, 6, 3,
> 8, 5, 7}, {1, 3, 2, 5, 4, 7, 6, 8}, {1, 3, 5, 2, 7, 4, 8, 6}, {1, 8,
> 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2}, {1, 8, 6, 7, 4, 5, 2, 3}, {1, 3, 2, 5, 4, 7, 6,
> 8}, {1, 3, 5, 2, 7, 4, 8, 6},....}
>
> there is a pair {1, 3, 2, 5, 4, 7, 6,
> 8}, {1, 3, 5, 2, 7, 4, 8, 6} which are the same.
>
> In an ideal world when I print out (in say TableForm) the repeated rows ca=
> n be printed in red (or some specified colour)
>
> These rows are permutations if that makes any difference. The tables can be=
> of any size (but always permutations of n numbers)
>
> as a subsidiary question is there an easy way to convert the tables into nu=
> mbers (or strings) eg
>
> {12345678,14628375,14263857 etc}
>
> Alternatively is there an easy way to perform permutations on strings of ch=
> aracters?
>
> Many thanks for your help to the multiple questions
> ps I am using Mathematica 6.03
>
For simply checking whether there are any duplicates, one can use Union[].
table = {{1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8}, {1, 4, 6, 2, 8, 3, 7, 5}, {1, 4, 2,
6, 3, 8, 5, 7}, {1, 3, 2, 5, 4, 7, 6, 8}, {1, 3, 5, 2, 7, 4, 8,
6}, {1, 2, 4, 3, 6, 5, 8, 7}, {1, 3, 2, 5, 4, 7, 6, 8}, {1, 2, 3,
4, 5, 6, 7, 8}};
Now compare Length@Union[table] and Length[table]
If you need to colour repeated elements, you can use Tally to identify them:
repeatedElements =
Cases[Tally[table], {list_, multiplicity_} /; multiplicity > 1 :>
list]
colorizeRules =
MapIndexed[#1 -> Style[#1, Bold, ColorData[2][First[#2]]] &,
repeatedElements]
table /. colorizeRules // ColumnForm
I hope this helps,
Szabolcs
P.S. Conversion to strings is easy, but I don't think you can permute
strings easily (without converting them back to lists first).
StringJoin[ToString /@ {1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8}]
Convert back to a list of characters using Characters[]