

Prepend
Details

- Prepend works on SparseArray objects, returning ordinary lists if necessary.
- Prepend can be used on Association objects. Single new elements are specified in the form key->value. New values replace older ones if their keys are the same.
- Multiple elements to prepend to an association can be specified in the form {key1->value1,key2->value2, …}.
- Prepend[elem][expr] is equivalent to Prepend[expr,elem].
Examples
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Generalizations & Extensions (1)
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History
Introduced in 1988 (1.0) | Updated in 2003 (5.0) ▪ 2014 (10.0)
Text
Wolfram Research (1988), Prepend, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Prepend.html (updated 2014).
CMS
Wolfram Language. 1988. "Prepend." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2014. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Prepend.html.
APA
Wolfram Language. (1988). Prepend. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Prepend.html
BibTeX
@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_prepend, author="Wolfram Research", title="{Prepend}", year="2014", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Prepend.html}", note=[Accessed: 15-August-2025]}
BibLaTeX
@online{reference.wolfram_2025_prepend, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={Prepend}, year={2014}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Prepend.html}, note=[Accessed: 15-August-2025]}