Pick

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Pick () is a dyadic primitive function which performs deep indexing on a possibly nested array. Pick allows to extract a value through multiple layers of nesting in a single function application. Pick uses the Right Shoe glyph.

Examples

The left argument X must be a scalar or vector where each element of X specifies the multi-dimensional index at each layer of the right argument Y. The result of X⊃Y is the item of Y at the location specified by X.

      ⎕←G←2 3⍴('ABC' 1)('DEF' 2)('GHI' 3)('JKL' 4)('MNO' 5)('PQR' 6)
┌───────┬───────┬───────┐
│┌───┬─┐│┌───┬─┐│┌───┬─┐│
││ABC│1│││DEF│2│││GHI│3││
│└───┴─┘│└───┴─┘│└───┴─┘│
├───────┼───────┼───────┤
│┌───┬─┐│┌───┬─┐│┌───┬─┐│
││JKL│4│││MNO│5│││PQR│6││
│└───┴─┘│└───┴─┘│└───┴─┘│
└───────┴───────┴───────┘
      (⊂2 1)⊃G
┌───┬─┐
│JKL│4│
└───┴─┘
      ((2 1)1)⊃G
JKL
      ((2 1)1 2)⊃G
K

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