Partition

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Partition (⊆, ⊂) is a dyadic function which splits its right argument into differently sized pieces as determined by the non-negative integer left argument. This article uses <source lang=apl inline>⊆</syntaxhighlight> to distinguish Partition from Partitioned Enclose (which is always <source lang=apl inline>⊂</syntaxhighlight>), but the actual glyph used varies by dialect.

On a vector right argument, the arguments must have the same length with each element in the left argument corresponding to an element in the right argument. Partition begins a new division of its right argument whenever a left argument element is greater than its neighbour on the left (with a 0 assumed to the left of the first element):

Try it online! <source lang=apl> 

     1 1 2 2 2 2 2⊆'HiEarth'

┌──┬─────┐ │Hi│Earth│ └──┴─────┘ </syntaxhighlight>

Works in: Dyalog APL

Right argument elements can be skipped by having their corresponding left argument element be 0: <source lang=apl> 

     1 1 2 2 2 0 0⊆'HiEarth'

┌──┬───┐ │Hi│Ear│ └──┴───┘ </syntaxhighlight>

Works in: Dyalog APL

In the case where the left argument is Boolean, Partition splits its right argument on runs of 0s in the left argument, allowing a very short split-on-delimiter function:

Try it online! <source lang=apl> 

     1 1 1 0 1 1 1 0 1 1 1 1⊆'How are you?'

┌───┬───┬────┐ │How│are│you?│ └───┴───┴────┘ 

     ' '(≠⊆⊢)'How are you?'

┌───┬───┬────┐ │How│are│you?│ └───┴───┴────┘ </syntaxhighlight>

Works in: Dyalog APL

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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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