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This page will contain examples that serve well to show APL's strength. They require minimal background and have no special dependencies.
This page will contain examples that serve well to show APL's strength. They require minimal background and have no special dependencies.
==Text processing==
APL represents text as character lists (vectors), making many text operations trivial.
=== Indices of multiple elements ===
=== Indices of multiple elements ===
APL represents text as character lists (vectors), making many text operations trivial:
<code class="apl">∊</code> gives us a mask for elements (characters) in the left argument that are members of the right argument:
<code class="apl">∊</code> gives us a mask for elements (characters) in the left argument that are members of the right argument:
<pre class=apl>
<pre class=apl>

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