[Jprogramming] choosing between alternates (iif, ifelse)

[Linda Alvord]

Based on the previous message, is this what you are looking for?


   <"0 (>c2)}(>b2),:>a2
---T-T--┐
│10│2│30│
L--+-+---

Linda

-----Original Message-----
From: programming-bounces at jsoftware.com
[mailto:programming-bounces at jsoftware.com] On Behalf Of Johann Hibschman
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 10:15 AM
To: programming at jsoftware.com
Subject: [Jprogramming] choosing between alternates (iif, ifelse)

(I'm re-sending this, since I think I had my list subscription
mis-configured. Hopefully, no one is getting this twice.)

What's the J idiom for choosing between alternates, based on a boolean
vector? In other languages, this is called something like "iif" or
"ifelse".

If I have:

 a=: 10 20 30
 b=: 1 2 3
 c=: 1 0 1

I want to get (10 2 30).

I can get this by something like ((a*c)+b*-.c), but that breaks if a
and b are boxes. For example, with

 a2=:10;20;30
 b2=: 1;2;3

then that trick doesn't work. Is there a more direct way? I tried
looking for this in the Phrases, but I couldn't find it there. There
was a merge, but that was a more complex operation.

Regards,
Johann
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