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Define a piecewise function from a list?

Noureddine Toumi
Posted 6 years ago

I would like to define a piecewise function by providing two lists and using a for loop eg:

xlist = {1, 2, 3, 4}
ylist = {4, 5, 6}
f(x):= { ylist[1] if x in [ xlist[1],xlist[2] ];ylist[2] if x in [ xlist[2],xlist[3] ]; ylist[3] if x in [ xlist[3],xlist[4] ];  0 otherwise}
POSTED BY: Noureddine Toumi
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Thank you.
POSTED BY: Noureddine Toumi

Sorry, my mistake. It should read (as a dot product):

f[x_] := Boole[IntervalMemberQ[#, x] & /@ xInterval].ylist

Please note that the problem is at the borders of the intervals not well defined.
POSTED BY: Henrik Schachner

Thank you this solved partially the problem but I want to have the function returning the exact value not a list.
POSTED BY: Noureddine Toumi

How about:

xlist = {1, 2, 3, 4};
ylist = {4, 5, 6};
xInterval = Interval /@ Partition[xlist, 2, 1];
f[x_] := Boole[IntervalMemberQ[#, x] & /@ xInterval] ylist
POSTED BY: Henrik Schachner
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