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Threading elements over corresponding elements in the second list


I often need to merge two lists like the following:


$A=\{\{0.1\},\{0.2\},\ldots,\{1\}\}$



$B=\{\{x_1\},\{x_{21},x_{22},x_{23}\},\{x_{31},x_{32},x_{33}\},\ldots,x_N\}$


in a way to ideally obtain a new list such as:


$C = \{\{0.1,x_{1}\}, \{0.2,x_{21}\}, \{0.2,x_{22}\}, \{0.2, x_{23}\},\{0.3,x_{31}\}, \{0.3,x_{32}\}, \{0.3, x_{33}\}, \ldots, \{1, x_N\}\}$


At present I do this by inspecting the lists and manually associating them in the appropriate way. In above example, I would do


Table[{A[[k]],B[[k,1]]},{k,1,N}]

Table[{A[[k]],B[[k,2]]},{k,2,S}]

Table[{A[[k]],B[[k,3]]},{k,2,S}]


where S is the position of the last element that contains three entries in the $B$ list.


These lists are typically very long, and I wonder whether there is a way to do this efficiently.




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