Help with DeleteCases [closed]

Trying to delete small elements from a list with

copy = DeleteCases[copy, {y_} /; y <= 1500.0 ]


but it does not work.

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Is your data actually a list of single element lists? That's what your code addresses... –  rasher May 23 at 11:22
Welcome to mathematica.stackexchange.com! It's hard to answer you question unless you provide info on how copy looks. However, you might try DeleteCases[copy, y_ /; y <= 1500.0]. –  Akater May 23 at 11:24
What rasher is saying is: The default value for levelspec in DeleteCases is {1}. –  Kuba May 23 at 11:31

I'm guessing that your code didn't work because you have a list of approximate numbers, like so,

SeedRandom[1]; data = RandomReal[2000., 5]

{1634.78, 222.839, 1579.05, 375.606, 482.722}


and not a list of form {{1634.78}, {222.839}, ..., {482.722}}. Presuming that I've guessed right, there are two straight-forward ways to remove the numbers less than 1500.

DeleteCases[data, x_ /; x <= 1500.]
Select[data, # > 1500. &]


Both will return

{1634.78, 1579.05}


I would use Select.

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