Re: Chained-functional notation examples?
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- From: Daniel Lichtblau <danl at wolfram.com>
- Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 02:06:07 -0400 (EDT)
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On 05/08/2014 09:20 AM, Hans Michel wrote: > Daniel: > > Now What's the catch with Today? > > Today will only work in Wolfram Language (Mathematica v 10), which may be > officially released Tomorrow? > > One can go on with a Who's on First theme. (Goes along with W|A baseball > data) > > But currently the DateObject "Today" would have to be changed to something > that would work in Mathematica 9 or below. > > Hans Hans et al, You are correct, I was using an unreleased version. Actually some good came of it (I found a weakness in date comparisons that got addressed). I'll leave modification for versions <=9 to others more adept at this sort of thing. I never was much good with dates... As for baseball, http://www.redreporter.com/2012/2/13/2796324/hus-on-first-a-modernization Daniel > -----Original Message----- > From: Daniel Lichtblau [mailto:danl at wolfram.com] > Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2014 3:08 AM > To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net > Subject: Re: Chained-functional notation examples? > > > A query such as this might do what you have in mind. Here directoryname > should be changed to whatever directory you want searched. > > Select[FileNames[("*uid*" | "*UID*"), directoryname, Infinity], > ((StringMatchQ[DirectoryName[#] , "*egal*"] && Today < > DayPlus[FileDate[#], 3]) &] > > Also there is a case sensitive switch if you want to allow strings with e.g. > "uID". If you want to allow that uid only in the name and not full string > > Daniel Lichtblau > Wolfram Research > > ------------------- > > On Tue, 06 May 2014 06:26:46 +0000, Unknown wrote: > > > I came to 'Mathematica' via Xahlee's criticism of the ad-hoc nature of > > unix-piping [functional notation]. He claims [& I believe him] that > > Mathematica has a better, more consistent notation. But the facility of > > PRE, IN & POST-fix alternatives, seems bad. You want ONE way of > acieving > the goal. More rules just increases mental load. > > > > A major benefit of functional [unix-piping] programming style, is that > > you don't need to remember the-full-journey: you just need to remember > > the previous stage's output. Nor do you need to remember several names: > > the previous output is just "it". A superficial read through a recent > > article[s] here, about <collecting data from several servers, and > > agregating it, and sending the result to a master> seemed very > > interesting, and matches my ideas of using functional programming. But > I > can't afford to invest in ANOTHER notation/syntax, without good > prospect > of productivety increase. > > > > Just as a test, how would Mathematica handle the following [or part of] >> little task: > > > > search all files in Dir=tree D | > > which are less than N days-old | > > and which contain string S1 | > > and which contain string S2 . > > > > Actually, this seems not a good example, since it's biased towards the > > *nix file system's format/syntax. > > > > Try: > > Search in table of ListOfOpenFiles for lineS with path-P [field] | > > which have same tty-field as line with path-P2 & program-M [field] > > > This sounds like a data-base problem? > > > > Or is there a nice list of 'such' Mathematica examples? > > > > Thanks, > > > > == John Grant. > > Here's a related real-live problem: > list all files in Dir-tree:D | > which are less-than daysOld:N | > and contain "egal" in the FullPathName | > and contain String:"uid" OR "UID" >