Re: Finding a function within an arbitrary expression
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 - From: Ulrich Arndt <ulrich.arndt at data2knowledge.de>
 - Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2013 05:46:18 -0400 (EDT)
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Try position
a = {3*u[1, 0], u[0, 0]/10., 1/u[1, 0]}
pat = u[1, 0]
Position[a, pat]
Ulrich
Am 30.06.2013 um 09:29 schrieb amannucci:
> I am trying to figure out what that pattern is for the following. The 
difficulty here is that I can think textually, but not in Mathematica 
patterns.
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> I am looking for a function u[1,0] within a list of expressions. The 
function might not be defined yet. For example, a list of expressions 
might be:
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> {3*u[1,0], u[0,0]/10., 1/u[1,0], ...}
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> I want to find all the expressions that have the function u[1,0] in 
it. There is certainly a way to do this "textually". How would one do 
this with patterns? Is it possible? Thank you.
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