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BUILT-IN MATHEMATICA SYMBOL
Manipulating Lists by Their Indices
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Extract
Extract
extracts the part of
expr
at the position specified by
list
.
Extract
extracts a list of parts of
expr
.
Extract
extracts parts of
expr
, wrapping each of them with head
h
before evaluation.
MORE INFORMATION
Extract
is equivalent to
Part
.
The position specifications used by
Extract
have the same form as those returned by
Position
, and used in functions such as
MapAt
and
ReplacePart
.
You can use
Extract
[
expr
,
...
,
Hold
]
to extract parts without evaluation.
If
expr
is a
SparseArray
object,
Extract
extracts parts in the corresponding ordinary array.
EXAMPLES
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Basic Examples
(3)
Extract the second part from an expression:
Extract a part nested in an expression:
Extract parts from multiple positions:
Extract the parts given by
Position
:
Extract the second part from an expression:
In[1]:=
Out[1]=
Extract a part nested in an expression:
In[1]:=
In[2]:=
Out[2]=
Extract parts from multiple positions:
In[3]:=
Out[3]=
Extract the parts given by
Position
:
In[1]:=
In[2]:=
Out[2]=
In[3]:=
Out[3]=
SEE ALSO
Part
Take
PadLeft
ReplacePart
TUTORIALS
Manipulating Lists by Their Indices
MORE ABOUT
Elements of Lists
Evaluation Control
List Manipulation
Parts of Expressions
Parts of Matrices
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