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Built-in
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Symbol
Rearranging Lists
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Parts of Matrices
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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
, {
n
1
,
n
2
,
...
}]
cycles elements at successive levels
n
i
positions to the left.
MORE INFORMATION
RotateLeft
[
expr
, -
n
]
rotates
n
positions to the right.
RotateLeft
can be used on
SparseArray
objects.
EXAMPLES
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Basic Examples
(2)
Rotate two positions to the left:
In[1]:=
Out[1]=
Rotate one position to the left:
In[1]:=
Out[1]=
Generalizations & Extensions
(2)
Applications
(4)
SEE ALSO
RotateRight
Reverse
PadLeft
BitShiftLeft
TUTORIALS
Rearranging Lists
Rearranging Nested Lists
MORE ABOUT
Parts of Matrices
Rearranging & Restructuring Lists
RELATED LINKS
Demonstrations with RotateLeft
(
Wolfram Demonstrations Project
)
NKS|Online
(
A New Kind of Science
)
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