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How to | Combine and Rearrange Lists
Mathematica provides a complete data manipulation language with vast flexibility in rearranging lists with any number of elements in any kind of structure.
Set up a list of six integers with some duplicates (stored as ):
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Sort the elements of the list :
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Use Union to sort and remove any duplicates:
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Note that unless you redefine , it retains its original value:
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Redefine :
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Reverse the order of :
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Rotate the elements of two places to the left:
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Rotate the elements of two places to the right:
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Pad on the left with to get a list of length 10:
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Partition the list into sublists of length 2:
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Partition the list into sublists of length 2 with offset 1:
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Split a list into runs of identical elements:
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Flatten deletes inner braces in nested lists:
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Join the elements of a set of lists:
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