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- ToArray
- Cast type to ARRAY.
- Usage
- ToArray(x)
- Arguments
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x (ARRAY or SET or LIST or SEQUENCES or DISCRETE_SEQUENCES or MARKOV_DATA or SEMI-MARKOV_DATA)
- Returned Object
- The value returned by ToArray has type ARRAY. If x is Undef, returns Undef.
- Description
- Transforms any set type (ARRAY, SET or LIST or SEQUENCES) to ARRAY whenever possible. It is always possible to cast a SET to an ARRAY, but a LIST can only be cast to a set if all its element have identical type.
- Note
- This function may be useful to remove duplicated elements from an array (cf. examples)
- See Also
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ToSet,
ToList,
ToString,
Sequences.
Examples
AML>a = [1,2,2,2,3,2,4,4,4,2,3,2]
<ARRAY(INT)> [1,2,2,2,3,2,4,4,4,2,3,2]
AML> b = ToSet(a)
<SET(INT)>[1,2,3,4]
AML> # c corresponds to arraya where duplicated element shave
been removed
AML> c = ToArray(b)
<ARRAY(INT)> [1,2,3,4]
AML>s = Sequences([[1,2,3,4],[1,2,3]])
<SEQUENCES> 1 VARIABLE 2 sequences cumulative length: 7
AML>c = ToArray(s)
<ARRAY(ARRAY(INT))> [[1,2,3,4],[1,2,3]]
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