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Missing some items
We encounter the
enlistkeyword early in learning q; a reliable way to make a one-item list where1#wont do. But there is a bit more toenlistthan that.In the first place, it is not only variadic taking various numbers of arguments it will take any number of arguments, even more than eight.
q)enlist[`one;`two;`three;`four;`five;`six;`seven;`eight;`nine] `one`two`three`four`five`six`seven`eight`nine
Of course, what it returns is a list, with each argument an item.
q)enlist[`one;`two;`three`and`a`bit;`four;`five;`six;`seven;`eight;`nine]
`one `two `three`and`a`bit `four `five `six `seven `eight `nine
What is less obvious is that
enlistis implicated in lists with missing items.q)type (`one;`two;`three) / symbol vector 11h q)type (`one;::;`three) / mixed list 0h q)type (`one;;`three) / a -- projection? 104h q)(`one;;`three) ~ enlist[`one;;`three] 1b
Is the missing item a generic null? No, a list with one or more missing items is a projection of
enlist, and its rank is the number of missing arguments. We can apply and iterate it as any other projection.q)(`one;;`three;;`five)[`two;`four] `one`two`three`four`five q)(`one;;`three;;`five) . `two`four `one`two`three`four`five q)raze `quick`crafty`cunning(`the;;`brown;;`jumps)/::`fox`cat`dog the quick brown fox jumps the quick brown cat jumps the quick brown dog jumps the crafty brown fox jumps the crafty brown cat jumps the crafty brown dog jumps the cunning brown fox jumps the cunning brown cat jumps the cunning brown dog jumps
Which gives us a few tricks up our sleeves when generating test datasets, or preparing data for loading and ingestion.
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