AppendTo

AppendTo[x,elem]

appends elem to the value of x, and resets x to the result.

Details

Examples

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Basic Examples  (1)

Assign to l a list:

Include a new value at the end of the list:

The value assigned to l has changed:

Scope  (5)

Use an arbitrary head:

Append to an Association:

Assigns to s a sparse matrix:

Add a row to the matrix:

Appending an element with inconsistent dimensions requires converting to ordinary lists:

The first argument to AppendTo need not be a symbol:

Append to a shared list in parallel:

Applications  (1)

Assign m to be a 2×2 matrix:

Append a row to m:

Append a column to m:

m is now a 3×3 matrix:

Possible Issues  (5)

The first argument must have a value:

The first argument must be assigned to something which can be appended to:

Something for which AtomQ is True cannot generally be appended to:

Using AppendTo on a column of a matrix replaces column values:

Append to a matrix column:

Reset the column values with the new value:

Using AppendTo to accumulate values in large loops can be slow:

There are many alternatives, such as using Reap and Sow:

When working on a shared list in parallel, AppendTo is atomic:

The seemingly equivalent expression using Append is not atomic:

Wolfram Research (1988), AppendTo, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/AppendTo.html (updated 2014).

Text

Wolfram Research (1988), AppendTo, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/AppendTo.html (updated 2014).

CMS

Wolfram Language. 1988. "AppendTo." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2014. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/AppendTo.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (1988). AppendTo. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/AppendTo.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2023_appendto, author="Wolfram Research", title="{AppendTo}", year="2014", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/AppendTo.html}", note=[Accessed: 19-March-2024 ]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2023_appendto, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={AppendTo}, year={2014}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/AppendTo.html}, note=[Accessed: 19-March-2024 ]}