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Re: [Bug-apl] String element of general array


From: Blake McBride
Subject: Re: [Bug-apl] String element of general array
Date: Fri, 9 May 2014 11:34:50 -0500

Greetings,

It doesn't work:

      m←'hello' 'there' 'how' 'are' 'you'
      m
 hello there how are you 

      m find 'are'
0 0 0 1 0
      m find 'are' 'hello'
0 0 0 0 0
      'are' find m
0 0 0

Thanks.

Blake


On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 11:15 AM, David B. Lamkins <address@hidden> wrote:
Try this:

∇z←list find key
 z←(,¨list)∊⊂,key


(Also: please trim your replies.)

On Fri, 2014-05-09 at 10:26 -0500, Blake McBride wrote:
> Interesting.  I didn't know about ≡.  That's helpful, but the issue
> you raise with 'a' 'b' leaves us back to where I started.  There
> should be a simple way for me to determine whether to do ⊂ or not.  I
> just haven't figured out how.
>
>
> I read that there was a big debate about what ⊂ does on a scalar.  I
> suppose this is part of what I am running up against.  I'm sure the
> problem can be solved with a bunch of loops and branches, but I was
> hoping there is a clean APL way.
>





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