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Can DeleteCases accept an anonymous function as a pattern?

Andrew Burnett
Posted 3 years ago

I suspect this is just a misunderstanding on my part, but I want to check if what I am trying is not possible.

I have a list of lists. I want to delete elements that have a length of less than 20 items. I can get the following to work.

Select[meetingSet, Length[#] >= 20 &]

But I was surprised that

DeleteCases[meetingSet, Length[#] <20 &]

Just returns the original list.

Is it possible to make the pattern an anonymous function?

Cheers, Andy
POSTED BY: Andrew Burnett
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Andrew Burnett
Posted 3 years ago

Thank you very much everyone. I need to go and practice more with pattern matching. I can see it's very powerful, but I haven't properly understood it up to now.
POSTED BY: Andrew Burnett

You can use a pure function in DeleteCases if it is packaged as a PatternTest:

DeleteCases[{{1, 2}, Range[21]},
 _?(Length[#] < 20 &)]
POSTED BY: Gianluca Gorni

Andy,

You need a Pattern in DeleteCases while Select uses a function that returns true/false. An example would be

DeleteCases[list, (x_ /; Length[x] < 20)]

Regards,

Neil
POSTED BY: Neil Singer
Mike Besso
Mike Besso
Posted 3 years ago

Andy:

I'm not at a place where I can try anything right now. But, let me give this my best guess.

I think the answer might be yes, but the function would have to return a pattern. Your example returns true/false.
POSTED BY: Mike Besso
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