<?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>unsequence -- extract the single element from a sequence of length 1</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../../Macaulay2/Style/doc.css"/> </head> <body> <table class="buttons"> <tr> <td><div><a href="_append.html">next</a> | <a href="_sequence.html">previous</a> | <a href="_append.html">forward</a> | <a href="_sequence.html">backward</a> | <a href="_lists_spand_spsequences.html">up</a> | <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> <div><a href="index.html" title="">Macaulay2Doc</a> > <a href="___The_sp__Macaulay2_splanguage.html" title="">The Macaulay2 language</a> > <a href="_lists_spand_spsequences.html" title="">lists and sequences</a> > <a href="_unsequence.html" title="extract the single element from a sequence of length 1">unsequence</a></div> <hr/> <div><h1>unsequence -- extract the single element from a sequence of length 1</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>unsequence x</tt></div> </dd></dl> </div> </li> <li><div class="single">Inputs:<ul><li><span><tt>x</tt>, <span>a <a href="___Thing.html">thing</a></span></span></li> </ul> </div> </li> <li><div class="single">Outputs:<ul><li><span><tt>x#0</tt>, if <tt>x</tt> is a sequence of length 1, otherwise <tt>x</tt></span></li> </ul> </div> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="single"><h2>Description</h2> <div><table class="examples"><tr><td><pre>i1 : unsequence (2:a) o1 = (a, a) o1 : Sequence</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i2 : unsequence (1:a) o2 = a o2 : Symbol</pre> </td></tr> <tr><td><pre>i3 : unsequence (0:a) o3 = () o3 : Sequence</pre> </td></tr> </table> </div> </div> <div class="single"><h2>See also</h2> <ul><li><span><a href="_sequence.html" title="make a sequence">sequence</a> -- make a sequence</span></li> </ul> </div> </div> </body> </html>