Partitioned Enclose
Partitioned Enclose (⊂
) is a dyadic function which splits its right argument into differently sized pieces as determined by the left argument.
Basic functionality
In the simplest case, and on a vector right argument, the corresponding element in the left argument indicates where divisions begin:
1 0 1 0 0 0 0⊂'HiEarth' ┌──┬─────┐ │Hi│Earth│ └──┴─────┘
Non-Boolean left argument
Almost all dialects restrict the left argument to provide only the above functionality. However, the left argument can be interpreted as a count of how many partitions begin with a particular position:
2 0 3 0 0 0 0⊂'HiEarth' ┌┬──┬┬┬─────┐ ││Hi│││Earth│ └┴──┴┴┴─────┘
Short left argument
The dialects that support this extension also allow omission of trailing zeros, which is useful if the partitioning vector is generated by where's inverse:
⍸⍣¯1⊢1 1 3 3 3 2 0 3 2 0 3⊂'HiEarth' ┌┬──┬┬┬─────┐ ││Hi│││Earth│ └┴──┴┴┴─────┘
Long left argument
Additional trailing empty divisions are created by adding an additional division count corresponding to the position beyond the end of the right argument:
1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1⊂'HiEarth' ┌──┬─────┬┐ │Hi│Earth││ └──┴─────┴┘
Split into lengths
This above extensions allow a simple definition of a split-into-lengths function:
Split←{⍵ ⊂⍨ ⍸⍣¯1 +\ ¯1↓1,⍺} 3 3 4 Split 'HowAreYou?' ┌───┬───┬────┐ │How│Are│You?│ └───┴───┴────┘