I'm not sure just how = goes about comparing boxed data, but opening the
boxes can be avoided by:
   */"1 a:=a
0 1 0

On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 11:48 PM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote:

> step by step example.
>
>    ] a=. a: (<1)} <"0 i. 3 5
> +--+--+--+--+--+
> |0 |1 |2 |3 |4 |
> +--+--+--+--+--+
> |  |  |  |  |  |
> +--+--+--+--+--+
> |10|11|12|13|14|
> +--+--+--+--+--+
>    (0=#) &> a     NB.test for empty in each cell
> 0 0 0 0 0
> 1 1 1 1 1
> 0 0 0 0 0
>    *./ (0=#) &> a   NB. closed but not what we wanted
> 0 0 0 0 0
>    *./"1 (0=#) &> a   NB. this work with rank operator
> 0 1 0
>    *./ |: (0=#) &> a  NB. transpose also work
> 0 1 0
>
> The key is the adverb &> which open each cell, do something, then
> assemble again. It also works if you have a more complicated
> verb instead of tacit (0=#), eg
>
> foo=: 3 : 0
> if. #y do. 1 else. 0 end.
> )
>
> and then proceed with
>    foo &> a
>
>
> Ср, 01 июн 2016, PR PackRat написал(а):
> > I need to perform a certain action if an entire row in a transposed
> > table (i.e., originally a column) has empty values, that is, all boxed
> > data are the equivalent of a: or ''.  The result should be a Boolean
> > value--"true" meaning that the entire row has empty values.  (A
> > typical application would be old stock market data, where all of the
> > "Open" values might be null or empty.)
> >
> > I don't know how to even begin writing such code (without a for/next
> > loop to separately evaluate each box's value, a very non-J way of
> > doing it).  Please help.  Thanks in advance!
> >
> >
> > Harvey
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