Simplify list with only one item

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Permalink Reply by TVG on September 15, 2014 at 3:15am

Ok I fixed it with path mapper... Any reason simplify doesnt work in this case?

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on September 15, 2014 at 3:21am

As you correctly noticed the Simplify action will only work on trees with multiple Branches. When a path is {0;0;0;0;0} it might seem obvious to you that you just want {0} but what if it was {0;0;1;0;1} should it be {0}, {1} or {1;1} or even {0;0;0}?

This leaves you to simplify it yourself. here are a couple of methods depending on whether you need it to change as your definition changes.

Path Mapper:

Dynamic Last Path:

Oh and here is the Anything But Zeros Method as pondered:

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• SimplifyOnePath.gh, 21 KB

Permalink Reply by TVG on September 15, 2014 at 4:00am

Thanks for the clarification!

Permalink Reply by TVG on September 15, 2014 at 8:03am

Hi Danny,
I am trying to solve the following problem;

I can have one tree with one branch (for example {0;0;0;0;0;0} OR one tree with multiple branches (  {0;0;0}, {1;0;0}, .... {4;0;0}).

I want the output to be a tree with single digits as branch numbers ( {0}, {1}, ... {4})

I tried the following but got unexpected results:

I thought I could use your function if the tree only had 1 branch, and use the standard simplify if the tree had more than 1 branch. Is there an other approach I could use?

Thanks in advance

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on September 15, 2014 at 8:18am

Replace Paths (Miss out the <reverse> I/O Modifier as you are interested in the First Branch):

Permalink Reply by TVG on September 15, 2014 at 8:34am

Thank you!