Re: Given a matrix, find position of first non-zero
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- Subject: [mg99512] Re: [mg99492] Given a matrix, find position of first non-zero
- From: Bob Hanlon <hanlonr at cox.net>
- Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 06:33:06 -0400 (EDT)
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A = {{0, 0, 5}, {50, 0, 100}, {0, 75, 100}, {75, 100, 0}, {0, 75,
100}, {0, 75, 100}};
Union[Position[A, _?(# != 0 &)], SameTest -> (#1[[1]] == #2[[1]] &)]
{{1, 3}, {2, 1}, {3, 2}, {4, 1},
{5, 2}, {6, 2}}
Bob Hanlon
---- Nasser Abbasi <nma at 12000.org> wrote:
=============
This is a little problem I saw in another forum, and I am trying to also
solve it in Mathematica.
Given a Matrix, I need to find the position of the first occurance of a
value which is not zero in each row.
The position found will be the position in the orginal matrix ofcourse.
So, given this matrix,
A = {
{0, 0, 5},
{50, 0, 100},
{0, 75, 100},
{75, 100, 0},
{0, 75, 100},
{0, 75, 100}
};
The result should be
{{1, 3}, {2, 1}, {3, 2}, {4, 1}, {5, 2}, {6, 2}}
This is how I solved this problem and after a bit of struggle. I wanted to
see if I could avoid using a Table, and solve it just using Patterns and
Position and Select, but could not so far.
Table[Flatten[{i, Flatten[Position[A[[i,All]], _?(#1 != 0 & ), 1, 1]]}], {i,
1, 6}]
Out[174]= {{1, 3}, {2, 1}, {3, 2}, {4, 1}, {5, 2}, {6, 2}}
I am not happy with the above solution. I am sure there is a better one (the
above also do not work well when one row has all zeros).
Do you see a better and more elegant way to do this?
thanks,
--Nasser