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I have the following list which is built up of associations, that is,

z = <

I am trying to to pick the first elements in each association such that it gives:

 >

to do that I do,

Map[First, z]

but this only returns the values, how can one fix this?

list-manipulation associations

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I have the following list which is built up of associations, that is,

z = <

I am trying to to pick the first elements in each association such that it gives:

 >

to do that I do,

Map[First, z]

but this only returns the values, how can one fix this?

list-manipulation associations

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asked 10 hours ago

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I have the following list which is built up of associations, that is,

z = <

I am trying to to pick the first elements in each association such that it gives:

 >

to do that I do,

Map[First, z]

but this only returns the values, how can one fix this?

list-manipulation associations

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z = <

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Map[First, z]

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You can use the fact that Part ([[…]]) preserves the keys when you supply a list of indices to extract:

z[[All, 1]]
(* < *)

(* without the list *)
z[[All, 1]]
(* 1, 4, 6, 10 *)

Alternatively you could use Take:

Map[Take[#, 1] &, z]
(* < *)

Other possibilites:

Map[#[[1]] &, z]
(* < *)

z[[All, ;; 1]]
(* < *)

In essence, anything that could in principle return multiple elements will preserve the keys (or, more generally, will preserve that level of the nested expression)

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For completeness sake, a few more:

Extract[z, All, 1]
(* < *)

Cases[z, KeyValuePattern[x_ -> y_] :> x -> y]
(*"a", "b" -> 1, "g", "h" -> 4, "k", "l" -> 6, "s", "t" -> 10*)

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You can use the fact that Part ([[…]]) preserves the keys when you supply a list of indices to extract:

z[[All, 1]]
(* < *)

(* without the list *)
z[[All, 1]]
(* 1, 4, 6, 10 *)

Alternatively you could use Take:

Map[Take[#, 1] &, z]
(* < *)

Other possibilites:

Map[#[[1]] &, z]
(* < *)

z[[All, ;; 1]]
(* < *)

In essence, anything that could in principle return multiple elements will preserve the keys (or, more generally, will preserve that level of the nested expression)

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You can use the fact that Part ([[…]]) preserves the keys when you supply a list of indices to extract:

z[[All, 1]]
(* < *)

(* without the list *)
z[[All, 1]]
(* 1, 4, 6, 10 *)

Alternatively you could use Take:

Map[Take[#, 1] &, z]
(* < *)

Other possibilites:

Map[#[[1]] &, z]
(* < *)

z[[All, ;; 1]]
(* < *)

In essence, anything that could in principle return multiple elements will preserve the keys (or, more generally, will preserve that level of the nested expression)

share|improve this answer

answered 10 hours ago

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$begingroup$

You can use the fact that Part ([[…]]) preserves the keys when you supply a list of indices to extract:

z[[All, 1]]
(* < *)

(* without the list *)
z[[All, 1]]
(* 1, 4, 6, 10 *)

Alternatively you could use Take:

Map[Take[#, 1] &, z]
(* < *)

Other possibilites:

Map[#[[1]] &, z]
(* < *)

z[[All, ;; 1]]
(* < *)

In essence, anything that could in principle return multiple elements will preserve the keys (or, more generally, will preserve that level of the nested expression)

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answered 10 hours ago

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z[[All, 1]]
(* < *)

(* without the list *)
z[[All, 1]]
(* 1, 4, 6, 10 *)

Map[Take[#, 1] &, z]
(* < *)

Map[#[[1]] &, z]
(* < *)

z[[All, ;; 1]]
(* < *)

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For completeness sake, a few more:

Extract[z, All, 1]
(* < *)

Cases[z, KeyValuePattern[x_ -> y_] :> x -> y]
(*"a", "b" -> 1, "g", "h" -> 4, "k", "l" -> 6, "s", "t" -> 10*)

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For completeness sake, a few more:

Extract[z, All, 1]
(* < *)

Cases[z, KeyValuePattern[x_ -> y_] :> x -> y]
(*"a", "b" -> 1, "g", "h" -> 4, "k", "l" -> 6, "s", "t" -> 10*)

share|improve this answer

answered 5 hours ago

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For completeness sake, a few more:

Extract[z, All, 1]
(* < *)

Cases[z, KeyValuePattern[x_ -> y_] :> x -> y]
(*"a", "b" -> 1, "g", "h" -> 4, "k", "l" -> 6, "s", "t" -> 10*)

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answered 5 hours ago

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Extract[z, All, 1]
(* < *)

Cases[z, KeyValuePattern[x_ -> y_] :> x -> y]
(*"a", "b" -> 1, "g", "h" -> 4, "k", "l" -> 6, "s", "t" -> 10*)

share|improve this answer

answered 5 hours ago

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answered 5 hours ago

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answered 5 hours ago

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