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<div><h1>mingle -- mingle elements of several lists</h1>
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<div><tt>mingle {v,w,...}</tt> -- produces a new list from the lists or sequences v,w,... by taking the first element from each, then the second, and so on.<br/><tt>mingle (v,w,...)</tt> -- does the same.<p/>
After one of the lists is exhausted, it is silently ignored.<table class="examples"><tr><td><pre>i1 : mingle({1,2,3,4},{a},{F,F,F,F,F,F,F,F,F,F})
o1 = {1, a, F, 2, F, 3, F, 4, F, F, F, F, F, F, F}
o1 : List</pre>
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<tr><td><pre>i2 : concatenate mingle( {"a","b","c"} , {",",","} )
o2 = a,b,c</pre>
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It is easy to transpose a nested list (thinking of it as a matrix) using <a href="_mingle.html" title="mingle elements of several lists">mingle</a> and <a href="_pack.html" title="pack elements of a list into shorter ones">pack</a>.<table class="examples"><tr><td><pre>i3 : pack(2, mingle {{1,2,3,4},{5,6,7,8}})
o3 = {{1, 5}, {2, 6}, {3, 7}, {4, 8}}
o3 : List</pre>
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<div class="waystouse"><h2>Ways to use <tt>mingle</tt> :</h2>
<ul><li>mingle(BasicList)</li>
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