Questions tagged [searching]
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Find non-case sensitive string in a mixed list of elements?
Consider an example list with mixed element types, e.g.:
list = { 1.234 , a[2] , {"Abc" , 4/5} , "acb" };
I would like to have a function that finds the position ...
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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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Is there a way to cancel a search in Mathematica?
Is there a way to cancel a word search in Mathematica initiated via the Find and Replace menu?
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Approximate Nearest Neighbors in Mathematica?
Is there any support for Approximate Nearest Neighbors (ANN) in Mathematica or third-party packages? I'm looking for a good implementation of locality sensitive hashing for applications where ...
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Find permutation index
Firstly I wanted to find all the non-negative integer solutions for the following equation given the value of $k_{max}$
$$ k_1 +k_2 +k_3+k_4 = k_{max} $$
For this I use the following code:-
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1answer
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Problem using Position when using a variable [closed]
So,
I tried to use Position to get the Position of the 90% Maximum of a Photodiode Signal. The code works when i directly use the solution of the .9*Max[...] solution, but I want to have it with a ...
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1answer
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Filling and transferring water between containers to obtain a desired volume
A classic class of math puzzles involves two irregular containers, $A$ and $B$, having known volumes $V_A$ and $V_B$ and an infinite source of water (from a spigot, say). You can
fill either ...
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1answer
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Using the binary search algorithm in a sorted grid
I want to get a mathematica code for binary search algorithm applied to a sorted grid containing integers.
For example, given
f[k_,x_]= x^2 + k x + k - 2
where <...
5
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1answer
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How to speed up a text search widget?
I have an InputField that searches a predefined list for matching strings and displays them in a TextGrid. But when the list is ...
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1answer
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How to cache results of WebImageSearch?
Every call to WebImageSearch costs money (wolfram service credits), thus, I would like to page through results without having to redownload them.
Given the ...
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2answers
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Looking for specific data in .txt file
I've the following code:
Import["test.txt"]
And it gives me:
1,10
2,20
3,30
4,40
5,50
6,60
7,70
8,80
9,90
10,100
11,110
12,120
13,130
14,140
15,...
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1answer
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Searching in a .txt file for a specific time
I've the following code:
Import["hoi1.txt"]
And it gives me:
"(time,voltage,current,power)
(1,10,5,10*5)
(2,20,6,20*6)
(3,30,7,30*7)
(4,40,8,40*8)
(...
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4answers
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How can one efficiently find the (x,y) values of the rectangles that enclose a chosen % of nonrandom data points in mathematica?
A half hour of searching for answers did not give useful results.
This is typical data:
I need to find the (x,y) values of at least 6 rectangles with one corner at (0,0) and the opposite corner at (...
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0answers
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Extracting names (surname & family name) from unstructured text files
This question is about finding names of people in a text without knowing these people. There are some rules we can use to detecting names in a text
A name consist always of two or more words (...
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4answers
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Searching for an unordered triple in a list of triples
I have a list of triples which looks like this
T = {{7, 1, 2}, {7, 2, 3}, {7, 3, 8}, {7, 1, 6}};
(I have suppressed a few triples for clarity. My real list is ...
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2answers
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Efficient Search for reverse element in List of Lists
I have a big list AllCycles with contains lists of non-repeating integers (and the first element is always the smallest). I want a function ...
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1answer
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How can I implement my own documentation search function?
The current documentation search doesn't allow for very sophisticate searching, can I write my own function to search through the docs?
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0answers
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dynamic binary search
Suppose I have a time series of values $v_1, \dotsc, v_n, \dots,$ (think of the data as being generated by repeated function calls, like a Python generator, or being captured in real time) and I want ...
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2answers
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Obtaining the position in a list where the i^th element is bigger than the (i+1)^th element
My question is very simple but I am not able to find the optimal solution. What I am trying to do is to have a function that give me the position in a list at which the value at position ...
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How to find where in a large expression Power::infy is generated?
Consider the following expression:
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2answers
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Memoization and finding already calculated DownValue
The problem of plotting an expensive function discussed in this question caught my attention. As an exercies I tried to solve it using memoization as follows
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What can we do with the Dump contexts? [closed]
So we know from here what the *Dump contexts signify and here Rojo found a very useful goody that involves them:
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1answer
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The nearest object from the array of objects
I need to find the most similar to desired object from the array of objects.
In this case ...
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Is there a way to search for a WolframLanguage pattern in Notebook? [duplicate]
Mathematica Notebook has a Search&Replace dialog, which allows to look for particular expressions. But I'd like to be able to find instances of code corresponding to a particular pattern. E.g. if ...
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0answers
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Alternative Methods of Using Cumulative Density Functions To Obtain Probabilities
I have a CDF that is generated from the subtraction of two arrays as part of a minimization procedure. A consequence is that events in the simulation can cause the subtracted total to be less than 0:
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3answers
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Working with deep lists
I want to store parameters value such that the function that depends on those parameters.
For example, let's say I have a function that depends on three arguments: f(x;a,b), where a and b are ...
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Is it possible to search the web by image from Mathematica?
Is it possible to perform a web search based on an image input?
There are several services that provide this: Google, Bing, TinEye, and maybe others. I am not sure which can be accessed ...
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2answers
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Display Documentation From Function
I would like a documentation function that works like that following.
doc["search terms"]
and it displays the list of search terms.
And then ...
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3answers
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Basic Search Functionality
Let say I have three blocks of text like the following.
{"first block of text with random content","different block of text","1 2 3 4"}
Now let's say I want to ...
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0answers
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Improved Documentation Search By Actual Content
Now by default Mathematica documentation searches keywords section in the Options version of the notebook and the actual text of the notebook. For example here is a snippet from ...
10
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2answers
308 views
Position and string patterns
I am trying to get Position work with patterns.
I have the following code:
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4answers
668 views
Searching a phrase in all *.nb files
I have so many *.nb files in a folder. In one of them I have written a phrase, unfortunately I cannot remember that file. I am searching about it and the file in ...
6
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1answer
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Using Mathematica to find an alternative continued fraction for $\zeta(5)$
Given the Riemann zeta function $\zeta(n)$.
I. $x=\zeta(3)$
Using Euler's continued fraction formula, we can form $\zeta(3)$'s cfrac as,
$$Ax+B = \cfrac{1}{v_1 - \cfrac{1^6}{v_2 - \cfrac{2^6}{...
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How to find alignments of interlocking shapes?
I'm searching for the ways to align interlocking shapes, that is, finding the locations and rotations that maximize the arc length at which they touch.
For simplicity, I'm assuming 'shapes' are one ...
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1answer
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Why does documentation search fail on substrings?
For example many times I have to type the full string exactly which defeats the point of a search, so perhaps this is a bug?
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Replacing parts of a complicated expression with shorthand symbols
I have a list, each element of which contains a different complicated expression. Here is a simplified example of the first three entries of the list, displayed one above the other:
$\frac{Ey \ \mu \ ...
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1answer
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WolframConnector - getting credentials for GoogleCustomSearch
I need to fill in the information for the WolframConnector in the panel shown below which is activated by running the command:
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1answer
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For loop to perform a shooting search in NDSolve
First comes the disclosure: I am very new to Mathematica and not so much a numerical guy in general. I am having a hard time using the for loop routine in Mathematica the correct way as well as ...
6
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1answer
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TextSearch Function
I am trying to use the new text search function to help me look through a directory of files for string that I chose. Essentially I've got a large list of notebooks and don't want to manually look ...
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1answer
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Searching for literal strings with TextSearch
The documentation indicates that TextSearch can be used to look for a "literal string" inside documents, but it appears Mathematica may be applying a regex-style ...
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Finding all of the words containing certain letters
Is there a fast method to find all of the words containing the letters: {a, e, i, o, u, y}? I created an algorithm, but it takes more than 11 seconds to find all of ...
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1answer
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Want to display a animation necklace when updating a list of suggestions from an inputfield search
I have an InputField search that provides search suggestions, but I want an animation necklace to be displayed while the search is 'busy'. I would also like this to be done using Dynamic rather than ...
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2answers
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How do I use DictionaryLookup to exclude words with certain phrases?
I'm looking to use DictionaryLookup to search the English dictionary for words that don't contain certain strings. For example, I want to exclude ...
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Limit FindMinimumCostFlow function to one vertex per path
I want find a set of paths through a graph that maximise flow and minimise cost set on each Edge. However, I have an additional constraint where each Vertex can only be visited once.
Mathematica has ...
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Is there a way to search for Arithmetic Progressions in a list?
If you have a list of integers is there a way of searching that list to see if there is a trend of Ax+B in the list? Not using all of the numbers, just seeing what trends like that are embedded in a ...
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Retrieving a Portion of Webpage Code using URLFetch
The URLFetch command is very useful for pulling the entire html source of a given webpage, however, if one wanted to speed up the process, by only requesting a ...
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1answer
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Searching if a directory exists within a folder
I hope this question is not a duplicate, but I could not find any other question which answered my specific question, which is:
I have the following folder structure (just an example):
samefolder/...
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1answer
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Is there a built-in function to do binary search?
Is there a built-in function to do binary search?
Say, given a list (sorted) and a number, find the position which keeps the listed sorted when the number is inserted.
I know that ...
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1answer
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Most efficient searching algorithm in a table
I am completely new in Mathematica (and in data analysis in general) and I find it really useful, although I still do not use it properly.
I have the following question related to data manipulation:
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1answer
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Searching for symbol except within subexpressions with a particular Head
I would like to write a searcher like FreeQ that looks for a Symbol (or Head) in an ...
