Re: Replace
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- Subject: [mg121103] Re: Replace
- From: Armand Tamzarian <mike.honeychurch at gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 08:18:13 -0400 (EDT)
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On Aug 26, 7:33 pm, Armand Tamzarian <mike.honeychu... at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Aug 25, 9:12 pm, Sam Korn <s... at kornfamily.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi, another stupid question. I have a list, and each element in the list is
> > a sublist with a pair of integers. How do I replace each element along the
> > lines of "{5,6}" with "(5|6)"?
>
> > I know it's a stupid question, and there's probably something really obvious
> > I'm missing, but I'm really new to Mathematica.
>
> > Thanks!
> > -Sam
>
> Here are a couple of ways:
>
> tmp = RandomInteger[{1, 20}, {20, 2}]
>
> First using Replace
>
> tmp /. {x_, y_} :> x/y
>
> For many this is a more intuitive way of doing it but will be
> (relatively) slow for very large lists. This is a faster way of doing
> it:
>
> tmp[[All, 1]]/tmp[[All, 2]]
>
> Mike
Doh! you wanted "|" not "/"
It still looks like using Part will give the fastest solution (on my
system at least, 8.0.1 OS X 10.6.8)
tmp = RandomInteger[{1, 20}, {20000, 2}];
Timing[tmp /. {x_, y_} :> x | y;]
Timing[Alternatives @@@ tmp;]
Timing[Thread[tmp[[All, 1]] | tmp[[All, 2]]];]
Mike