Re: de-nesting complex nested lists
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- Subject: [mg111289] Re: de-nesting complex nested lists
- From: Szabolcs Horvát <szhorvat at gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 06:38:42 -0400 (EDT)
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On 2010.07.25. 8:00, Michael Stern wrote:
> If one has an irregularly nested list like
>
> {{1, 2, 3}, {1, 2, 4}, {{1, 2, 3, 4}, {1, 2, 3, 8}}, {{1, 2, 9}, {{1, 2, 13}, {4, 5, 6}}}},
>
> How might one most easily transform this into a list of uniform Depth 2 ( {{1,2,3},{1,2,4},{1,2,3,4},{1,2,3,8},{1,2,9},{1,2,13},{4,5,6}} ) ?
>
Hi MathGroup,
Here's a little trick to do this in a single step:
d = {{1, 2, 3}, {1, 2, 4}, {{1, 2, 3, 4}, {1, 2, 3, 8}}, {{1, 2, 9},
{{1, 2, 13}, {4, 5, 6}}}}
Level[d, {-2}]
Just use the leaves of the tree as reference when taking the items, not
the root. That is, use a negative value in the level specification.
Cheers,
Szabolcs