Questions on expression testing and manipulation through pattern matching and constructing efficient patterns.
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Replacement rule only matches part of expression
I have the result of a calculation (which is too long to mention here) and it gives
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4answers
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Check in a series if there exists adjacent values with less than a certain number of missing values
I'm working with a large number of series of different experiments, where there exist a lot of experiments where there are no entries. I now want to draw a sample where there should exist at least ...
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Pattern to match a non-empty list of non-empty lists
Is there a pattern to match a list of lists, containing at least one list, with each list containing at least one element?
In the Mathematica documentation it says that the pattern
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How can I ensure that I am constructing patterns in the most efficient way possible?
Inspired by this answer, I am interested to know if there are best practices or rules of thumb for constructing patterns, for example for use in function definitions (...
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What best practices or performance considerations are there for choosing between Cases, Position, Pick and Select?
Cases, Select,Pick and Position each have different ...
