Re: Find common elements in a list of sublists
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- From: Murta <rodrigomurtax at gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 04:32:08 -0400 (EDT)
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On Apr 3, 5:44 am, Cisco Lane <travl... at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Suppose I have a list of sublists:
>
> d={{1, 19}, {1, 23}, {1, 5, 25}, {1, 17}, {1, 11}, {1, 5}}
>
> How do I find the elements common to all the sublists?
>
> I can do it using intersection:
>
> Intersection[dx[[1]], dx[[2]], dx[[3]], dx[[4]], dx[[5]], dx[[6]]]
>
> which yields, correctly, {1}, but what if the number of sublists in d is variable?
Hi Lane
You can use this:
d = {{1, 19}, {1, 23}, {1, 5, 25}, {1, 17}, {1, 11}, {1, 5}};
Intersection @@ d
best regards
Murta