Questions tagged [pattern-matching]
Questions on expression testing and manipulation through pattern matching and constructing efficient patterns.
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How to get all the expression with pattern match? [on hold]
The FullForm of my equation final(obtained from System Modeler) is:
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Orderless breaks pattern match
I am perplexed by the effect of Orderless on pattern matching. Starting from a clean Kernel (i.e. after using Quit), I find the following expected match for ...
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Identifying total derivatives
I would like to identify which terms in my expression are a total derivative and which ones are not.
For expressions in which all terms are a total derivative, one can simply use integrate to find ...
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Can pattern assumptions be made reliable?
It is possible to use patterns in assumptions such as f[_]>0. This does not seem to be explained in the documentation but is for instance pointed out in Is it ...
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A single argument pattern definition applies to multiple-argument patterns?
Consider defining a pattern rule, such as
myFun[x_]:=x
As far as I understand Mathematica syntax, this rule means
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Rational numbers treated as symbols? How to query for actual symbols? [closed]
I have noticed that the following query returns
FreeQ[Rational[3, 8], _Symbol]
False
which can only be explained by the ...
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Match an expression that has a descendant pattern
I have a complicated expression in which I have another expression p which, when it’s present, I want to match the outer expression and all of its children. I was hoping for something like ...
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Manipulating a general length function
As a minimal example, define a function like s[1,2,3]; this is a function of three arguments in this case, but I'd like to apply this general idea to functions like ...
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Partitioning string into longest substrings of given characters
I want to partition string into longest substrings that each contain only specific characters, beginning from left to right with no overlaps, always choosing the longest one possible at current ...
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Is there a defined priority for pattern matching?
If you define a function g, like so:
g[x_?EvenQ] := "even"
g[x_?NumberQ] := "number"
why will Mathematica always return ...
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How can I extract the parameters from my expression automatically?
I have an expression of this form
$\qquad e^{-x^2b_0+xb_1+b_2}(c_0+c_1x+c_2x^3+c_3x^3+c_4x^4)$
However, it has complicated parameters.
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Can someone please explain the code from another question
Source: Position of a pattern-matched part of an expression
Can someone please explain the following code by Leonid Shifrin.
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Finding where a specific number appears in an expression
I would like to see how many times (and where) the number "91" appear in a set of formulae.
I thought of using Position[expr , 91 , Infinity], but it seems not to ...
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Learning to work with core pattern only [closed]
I am trying to learn "core" patterns so I can start using them more often. Consider I am trying to solve the following problem.
data = {2,{4,2,3},5,{7,3},{},4,1} (...
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Using Min & Max of an Interval in a replacement [closed]
I want to use a replacement rule to transform a list of equations. The following works as expected:
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FreeQ checking for several variables [closed]
I am using FreeQ to define a replacement rule. However, it doesn't seem to be possible to specify a list of variables as the second argument, which is why I came up ...
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Commutativity of Times and pattern matching
I understand that Attributes of Times make a bit non intuitive the Pattern Matching of its arguments.
However I do not understand why this gives False:
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String Pattern to match “x by y”
I'm trying to create a string pattern which will match either (with quotes included):
"x by y"
x by y
'x by y'
I've tried to use the following pattern: ...
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Why is { } interpreted as an option in my function? [closed]
I don't understand the output from:
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Select certain term containing some patterns and confusing pattern Alternatives in FreeQ
I am considering a function termsContain[func_,list_] which select in an expression func the terms containing the ones in the ...
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Is there a possibility of adding a second condition, or an else clause to $/;$?
Let tally=RandomInteger[{0, 1}, 10];
In the code below, I'm trying to output a list where each component $C_n=\sum^n_{i=1} \text{tally}_i / n$
The problem with my ...
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How to preserve the order of multiplication with Cases?
i have following expression:
Cases[cx[i, k] cx[k, q] a[z, x], _Symbol, 2] // DeleteDuplicates
what i expect is to get:
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How to remove the item that is repeated?
If i have a
list={m,n,p,q,q,r,l,l}
how can i remove the repeated item with pattern matching so i would have
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Change arguments of a product of functions
I am trying to do the following with rule-based pattern matching
(f1[t] f2[t] f3[t]) /. {x__ -> n[
Product[x[[i, 0]][om[i]], {i, 3}]]} // Quiet
which ...
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Extract powers of exponential into a list
I have a very complicated, long (thousands of terms) expression that boils down to a form of
expr = a1 Exp[b1] + a2 Exp[b2] + a3 Exp[b3]
Note that all a and b ...
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Why Cases and Select treat the List differently?
Look at these two examples:
In[1]:=Select[f[i], MatchQ[_f]]
Out[1]:=f[]
In[2]:=Cases[f[i],_f]
Out[2]:={}
It seems that the Select take $f[i]$ as List, but Cases ...
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Select certain terms in an expression
I would like to have a function to select terms containing q[i] terms in expressions, for example, for an expression
a q[i]+b +c q[j]+d
I would like the function ...
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Replacement of the patterns in the replacement
I want to make such changes:
$(A\, p + B\, q)[i] \to A\, p[i]+B\, q[i]$
But the replacement below can not do this
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Remove expression with matched braces from string
I am writing a LaTeX document where the custom command \chg{...} highlights changes in some color. Here I am, with a document of about 50 of those. Sure, one could ...
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Replace an If by a combination using replacement rules
Consider the following code :
tttest = a^2 + If[a > 0, a, -a]
a^2 + If[a > 0, a, -a]
I would like to replace my If function by something like fonction @ ...
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Fast way to check if an expression matches any of the rules in a list?
I have a function defined roughly like so. This is a minimum recreation.
foo[expr_, rules: {__Rule}] := "some fancy result" /; AnyRuleMatchesQ[expr, rules];
What ...
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OptionValue and OptionPattern not Changing Values
I am trying to produce a function with a few sets of arguments, one of which can accept options. However it doesn't seem to be responding to the changes that I accept.
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How to check expression depends on symbol in a particular way
Consider these two expressions:
expr1 = a d g[X, c]^2 + e g[X, f] + 3
expr2 = a d g[X, c]^2 + e X + 3
How do I check whether these expressions depend on ...
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Pattern matching on Orderless functions
I'm trying the following pattern matching command:
ReplaceList[Hold[b + a], Hold[x___ + y___] -> {{x}, {y}}]
And Mathematica returns:
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How to bring out all factors recursively except one particular term?
I want to write a function
keepOnly[expr_, keep_]
Such that
keepOnly[f[f2*g[g2*h[h2*keep, h1], g1], f1], keep]
becomes
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How to use “Cases” for isolating terms of a sum in a nice way?
I'd like to isolate some terms with specific patterns within a sum that I called chunk.
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Dropping lists using pattern [duplicate]
I have the following list of lists.
data = {{0, 0, 0}, {1, 0, 0}, {2, 0, 1}, {3, 0, 0}, {4, 0, 0}, {5, 0, 3}}
I want to drop all the lists with ...
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KeySelect via Not[StringMatchQ[Pattern]] fails
I have an Association asc that has mixed type Keys:
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Splitting a list of letters into subsequences starting with uppercase letters [duplicate]
Given a list of upper/lowercase characters, I'm trying to split it into subsequences that start with an uppercase and contain the next few (not necessarily positive number of) elements up until the ...
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How to change node color in .dot file using pattern matching?
For example I have a dot file that describe a decision tree or binary tree
In the file, the color of node is always gold, so I try to change it according the number in ...
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Splits an expression into two parts if possible
The series
The series is: $\text{expr}_{1} \pm \text{expr}_{2} ...$
$\pm$ represents plus or minus sign.
The number of terms in the series can be 1 or more than 1.
Each term $\text{expr}_{n}$ is an ...
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Substituting main diagonal elements when a condition is satisfied
I'm trying to substitute the main diagonal elements when their value is less or equal to zero.
I've tried the following:
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Cases, Pattern, Condition [duplicate]
I supposed Cases would do the list produced as example
li = RandomSample[Range[100, 999], 30]
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How to refer to a character group without ambiguity in a regex?
Suppose I want to realize a replacement in a string: "aabbcc11dd ee" -> "aabbcc112dd ee", I can use a regex like this within ...
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How do you find a sub-graph and replace it with another subgraph?
I saw a video where SW shows how he has a large graph and some rules for finding a given subgraph in a graph and replacing it with another subgraph.
How would one go about doing this in Mathematica?
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Reformatting the pattern inside a list
So, in principle, I have a simple problem which goes like this:
I have vectors that should consist of lists of 2 numbers, see here:
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Add a space after a ending dot of a sentence
How can I add a space after the ending dot of a sentence? So dots like in "1.2" should be unaffected. Also if there is already a space, then there should not be a ...
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Using DeleteCases to match a string pattern
I am trying to remove all of the elements from a list that contain the characters "err" in that order.
I expect the following code to return an empty list:
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Holding evaluation of flat, orderless, function in up value [closed]
I have an operator that is flat and orderless that I want to evaluate only after the expression has been entirely flattened. Essentially, I want an expression of the form ...
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Pattern of list contains two types of variables: What is the correct definition?
What is the correct form of the pattern "list of variables of two (or more) types"
These examples do not work
MatchQ[{1., "a", 2.3, 7.}, _ {Real | String...}]
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