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}. y Behead

Rank Infinity -- operates on x and y as a whole, by items of y -- WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?


Drop the leading item from y

   }. 'abc'
bc

Related Primitives

Head ({. y), Tail ({: y), Curtail (}: y)


More Information

1.  }.y is equivalent to  1 }. y .


Details

0. A video lab has been created for J901 on both the JHS and jqt platforms in the add-ons category of the labs section of J. It includes two videos covering some of these topics as well as interactive opportunities to explore the Head Monadic Verb. The videos can be viewed all at once Behead monadic verb complete video or one at a time Behead monadic verb Part 1 and Behead monadic verb Part 2

1. The rank of  }.y is the same as the rank of y unless y is an atom, in which case  }.y is an empty list (with the same type as y).

2. If y has no items,  }.y is the same as y.


x }. y Drop

Rank 1 _ -- operates on lists of x and the entirety of y -- WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT?


Drop the leading x items of y

if x is negative, the trailing x items are dropped

   2 }. 'abcde'
cde
   _2 }. 'abcde'
abc

Common uses

1. Remove data from a list

   datatosend =: sentlength }. datatosend   NB. remove sent data from the send queue
   21 }. 'This is sentence 1.  This is sentence 2.'
This is sentence 2.

2. (With Take {.) Chop out an interval from a list

C/f MID$ in BASIC, substr() in other languages

   az=: 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
   3 {. 5 }. az
fgh

Subarray ];.0 is a better way to do this.

3. (With Take {.) Split a list into head and beheaded list

   split   NB. defined in stdlib as...
{. ,&< }.
   lst=: 'abcde'
   2 split lst
+--+---+
|ab|cde|
+--+---+
   'hd lst'=: split lst
   hd ; lst
+-+----+
|a|bcde|
+-+----+

split is a

  • Standard Library word(s) residing in the 'z'-locale
  • Defined in the factory script stdlib.ijs which is located in  ~system/main/stdlib.ijs
  • View the definition(s) in a JQt session by entering:  open '~system/main/stdlib.ijs'


Related Primitives

Take (x {. y)


More Information

1. If x is a list, each atom of x specifies a drop operation along the corresponding axis of y

   ]a =: _4 ]\ 'abcdefghijkl'
abcd
efgh
ijkl
   _1 1 }. a   NB. Drop the last row, and the first column
bcd
fgh

Details

1. When x is a list, axes of y beyond the length of x are taken in full.

2. If y is an array, x must not be longer than the rank of y

   2 3 {. i. 4
|length error

4. If y is an atom, it has leading axes of length 1 added to bring its rank up to the same as the length of x, and then the drop operations are applied.

5. If x is empty then  x }. y is the same as y. This is the only way that the result of  x }. y can be an atom.

6. In accordance with the description above, values in x that are larger than the length of the corresponding axis cause all atoms to be dropped, leaving an empty array

Infinity (_ or __) are valid values in x for this purpose

   $ _ }. i. 4 5
0 5