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Lookup[assoc,key]
looks up the value associated with key in the association assoc; if the key is not present, Missing["KeyAbsent",key] is returned.
Lookup[assoc,{key1,key2,…}]
gives a list of the values associated with the keyi.
Lookup[{assoc1,assoc2,…},key]
gives a list corresponding to the value of key in each associ.
Lookup[assoc,key,default]
gives default if the key is not present.
Lookup[assoc,keys,default,h]
looks up the values associated with keys, wrapping each of them with head h before evaluation.
Lookup[key]
represents an operator form of Lookup that can be applied to an expression.
DetailsLook up the value associated with the key:
When a key is not found, a Missing object is returned by default:
Provide a default value to be used when the key is not found:
Use the operator form of Lookup:
Scope (5)Look up multiple keys at once:
Lookup threads over lists of associations:
Query multiple keys from multiple associations:
Lookup can be used to look up keys in lists of rules:
Wrap the result in Hold to prevent it from evaluating:
Apply the operator form to a list of lists:
Applications (1)You can use constructs such as Throw and Return in the third argument of Lookup to abort a computation when a required key is missing:
Properties & Relations (4)When the key is present, the default is not evaluated:
Even when it appears in a result multiple times, the default value is only evaluated once:
Applying an association to a key is typically equivalent to using Lookup on that key:
Lists are handled differently by Lookup, however:
Wrap the list in Key to make Lookup treat it as a single key:
Lookup automatically strips up to one level of Key from its second argument:
Similarly, lists of keys are stripped of any Key wrappers they contain:
This stripping allows looking up expressions of the form Key[{…}] and Key[Key[…]]:
Possible Issues (1)When the key to be looked up is a list or an expression with head Key, it must be wrapped in a Key to avoid ambiguity:
Wolfram Research (2014), Lookup, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Lookup.html (updated 2020). TextWolfram Research (2014), Lookup, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Lookup.html (updated 2020).
CMSWolfram Language. 2014. "Lookup." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2020. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Lookup.html.
APAWolfram Language. (2014). Lookup. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Lookup.html
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