<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <!-- for emacs: -*- coding: utf-8 -*- --> <!-- Apache may like this line in the file .htaccess: AddCharset utf-8 .html --> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1 plus MathML 2.0 plus SVG 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/2002/04/xhtml-math-svg/xhtml-math-svg-flat.dtd" > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en"> <head><title>drop(BasicList,ZZ)</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../../Macaulay2/Style/doc.css"/> </head> <body> <table class="buttons"> <tr> <td><div><a href="_dual.html">next</a> | <a href="_drop_lp__Basic__List_cm__List_rp.html">previous</a> | <a href="_dual.html">forward</a> | <a href="_drop_lp__Basic__List_cm__List_rp.html">backward</a> | up | <a href="index.html">top</a> | <a href="master.html">index</a> | <a href="toc.html">toc</a> | <a href="http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Macaulay2/">Macaulay2 web site</a></div> </td> </tr> </table> <hr/> <div><h1>drop(BasicList,ZZ)</h1> <div class="single"><h2>Synopsis</h2> <ul><li><div class="list"><dl class="element"><dt class="heading">Usage: </dt><dd class="value"><div><tt>w = drop(v,n)</tt></div> </dd></dl> </div> </li> <li><span>Function: <a href="_drop.html" title="drop some elements from a list or sequence">drop</a></span></li> <li><div class="single">Inputs:<ul><li><span><tt>v</tt>, <span>a <a href="___Basic__List.html">basic list</a></span></span></li> <li><span><tt>n</tt>, <span>an <a href="___Z__Z.html">integer</a></span></span></li> </ul> </div> </li> <li><div class="single">Outputs:<ul><li><span><span>a <a href="___Basic__List.html">basic list</a></span>, the list obtained by omitting the first <tt>n</tt> elements of the list <tt>v</tt> if <tt>n</tt> is positive, or the last <tt>-n</tt> elements if <tt>n</tt> is negative.</span></li> </ul> </div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="single"><h2>Description</h2> <div><table class="examples"><tr><td><pre>i1 : drop({a,b,c,d,e},2) o1 = {c, d, e} o1 : List</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i2 : drop({a,b,c,d,e},-2) o2 = {a, b, c} o2 : List</pre> </td></tr> </table> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>