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Mathematica Teacher's Edition

Built-in Functions

Lists and Matrices

Structure Manipulation

Split

Split[list] splits list into sublists consisting of runs of identical elements.
Split[list, test] treats pairs of adjacent elements as identical whenever applying the function test to them yields True.

Example: Split[a, a, b, b, a, a, b].
The default function used to test whether elements are identical is SameQ.
Split can be used to perform run-length encoding.
See The Mathematica Book on the web: Section 1.8.10.
See also: Partition, Union, Flatten, ReplaceList.

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