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At (@) is a primitive dyadic operator that is similar to J and K's Amend in functionality. In Dyalog APL, At handles a subset of the cases of the Under operator that pertain to modifying elements at specific positions in an array.

Description

At takes two operands, each of which can be an array or function, with varying effect: A call to At is of the form <source lang=apl inline>X(f@g)Y</syntaxhighlight> where <source lang=apl inline>X</syntaxhighlight> is optional.

  • <source lang=apl inline>g</syntaxhighlight> specifies the indices of the right argument that should be modified.
    • Function: Must apply monadically to <source lang=apl inline>Y</syntaxhighlight>, and return a boolean array of the same shape as <source lang=apl inline>Y</syntaxhighlight>, with ones at positions that should be amended.
    • Array: A vector (or scalar) of cell indices (of equal lengths) to amend. If the same index appears multiple times, the last amendment overrules any previous ones, meaning that amendments are not stacked. This is in contrast to modified assignment where multiple specifications of the same parts of the array will be processed sequentially.
  • <source lang=apl inline>f</syntaxhighlight> specifies what happens to the elements at those positions.
    • Function: Is applied once on an array whose major cells are the selected cells. If <source lang=apl inline>X</syntaxhighlight> is present, then it is bound to <source lang=apl inline>f</syntaxhighlight> so <source lang=apl inline>X f@g Y</syntaxhighlight> is equivalent to <source lang=apl inline>X∘f@g Y</syntaxhighlight>.
    • Array: Replaces the selected elements and must either have the same shape as the array whose major cells are the selected cells, or be a scalar, which then replaces all selected cells.

Each possible derived function can be applied monadically or dyadically, except if the left operand (<source lang=apl inline>f</syntaxhighlight>) is an array, in which case, only the monadic derived function is defined.

Examples

<source lang=apl> ⍝ Simple replacement 

     (1 2 3@4 5 6)7 5 4 10 3 6 9 2 1 8

7 5 4 1 2 3 9 2 1 8 

     (0@2 4) 1 2 3 4 5

1 0 3 0 5 

     ⍝ f is a function
     10 (×@2 4) 1 2 3 4 5

1 20 3 40 5 

     (÷@2 4) 1 2 3 4 5

1 0.5 3 0.25 5 

     ⍝ g is a function
     '*'@(2∘|) 1 2 3 4 5  ⍝ Boolean selection 1 0 1 0 1
  • 2 * 4 *
     ⍝ f and g are functions
     10 (×@(≤∘3)) 3 1 4 1 5

30 10 4 10 5 

     ⌽@(2∘|) 1 2 3 4 5  ⍝ Reversal of sub-array 1 3 5

5 2 3 4 1</syntaxhighlight>

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Prefix friendly @ by Aaron Hsu and Roger Hui


APL built-ins [edit]
Primitives (Timeline) Functions
Scalar
Monadic Conjugate ∙ Negate ∙ Signum ∙ Reciprocal ∙ Magnitude ∙ Exponential ∙ Natural Logarithm ∙ Floor ∙ Ceiling ∙ Factorial ∙ Not ∙ Pi Times ∙ Roll ∙ Type ∙ Imaginary ∙ Square Root ∙ Round
Dyadic Add ∙ Subtract ∙ Times ∙ Divide ∙ Residue ∙ Power ∙ Logarithm ∙ Minimum ∙ Maximum ∙ Binomial ∙ Comparison functions ∙ Boolean functions (And, Or, Nand, Nor) ∙ GCD ∙ LCM ∙ Circular ∙ Complex ∙ Root
Non-Scalar
Structural Shape ∙ Reshape ∙ Tally ∙ Depth ∙ Ravel ∙ Enlist ∙ Table ∙ Catenate ∙ Reverse ∙ Rotate ∙ Transpose ∙ Raze ∙ Mix ∙ Split ∙ Enclose ∙ Nest ∙ Cut (K) ∙ Pair ∙ Link ∙ Partitioned Enclose ∙ Partition
Selection First ∙ Pick ∙ Take ∙ Drop ∙ Unique ∙ Identity ∙ Stop ∙ Select ∙ Replicate ∙ Expand ∙ Set functions (Intersection ∙ Union ∙ Without) ∙ Bracket indexing ∙ Index ∙ Cartesian Product ∙ Sort
Selector Index generator ∙ Grade ∙ Index Of ∙ Interval Index ∙ Indices ∙ Deal ∙ Prefix and suffix vectors
Computational Match ∙ Not Match ∙ Membership ∙ Find ∙ Nub Sieve ∙ Encode ∙ Decode ∙ Matrix Inverse ∙ Matrix Divide ∙ Format ∙ Execute ∙ Materialise ∙ Range
Operators Monadic Each ∙ Commute ∙ Constant ∙ Replicate ∙ Expand ∙ Reduce ∙ Windowed Reduce ∙ Scan ∙ Outer Product ∙ Key ∙ I-Beam ∙ Spawn ∙ Function axis ∙ Identity (Null, Ident)
Dyadic Bind ∙ Compositions (Compose, Reverse Compose, Beside, Withe, Atop, Over) ∙ Inner Product ∙ Determinant ∙ Power ∙ At ∙ Under ∙ Rank ∙ Depth ∙ Variant ∙ Stencil ∙ Cut ∙ Direct definition (operator) ∙ Identity (Lev, Dex)
Quad names Index origin ∙ Comparison tolerance ∙ Migration level ∙ Atomic vector
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