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RotateLeft

RotateLeft[expr, n]
cycles the elements in expr n positions to the left.

RotateLeft[expr]
cycles one position to the left.

RotateLeft[expr, {n₁, n₂, ...}]
cycles elements at successive levels n_i positions to the left.

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RotateLeft[expr, -n] rotates n positions to the right.

RotateLeft can be used on SparseArray objects.

Basic Examples (2)

Rotate two positions to the left:

Rotate one position to the left:

Generalizations & Extensions (2)

Applications (4)

RotateRight Reverse PadLeft BitShiftLeft

Rearranging Lists

Rearranging Nested Lists

Parts of Matrices

Rearranging & Restructuring Lists

Demonstrations with RotateLeft (Wolfram Demonstrations Project)

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