Re: Pattern to match a list of non-negative integers
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- Subject: [mg108932] Re: Pattern to match a list of non-negative integers
- From: Leo Alekseyev <dnquark at gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 07:25:30 -0400 (EDT)
- References: <hphbnd$lj5$1@smc.vnet.net> <4BBC5963.3010105@metrohm.com>
I don't know why I didn't think about _?. How silly of me!
Since I want to also enforce the Integer property, what I need is
MatchQ[{1, 2}, {_?(NonNegative[#] && Head[#] === Integer &) ..}]
I am guessing this is the cleanest way to do it...
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 6:07 AM, dh <dh at metrohm.com> wrote:
> On 07.04.2010 09:20, Leo Alekseyev wrote:
>>
>> This seems like a very basic pattern-matching question, but somehow
>> the answer eludes me at the moment. I want to match a list of
>> non-negative integers. Something like MatchQ[{1,2},{(x_Integer /; x
>>>
>>> = 0)..}] doesn't work -- do named patterns simply not play well with
>>
>> Repeated[]?..
>>
>> After starting to write this message, the following pattern, occurred to
>> me:
>> MatchQ[{2, 3}, x : {_Integer ..} /; ! MemberQ[x, y_ /; Negative[y]]]
>> -- this works, but seems needlessly complex -- so I'll send the
>> message on, in hopes that there is a cleaner way of writing the
>> pattern.
>>
> Hi Leo,
> if you repeat something like x_ .., you repeat the x, that is all the
> elements must be the same. Therefore, do not name the pattern. The following
> will work:
> MatchQ[{1, 2}, {_ ?NonNegative ..}]
>
> cheers, Daniel
>
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