Array Manipulation

Introduction to Array Manipulation

Arrays/Sets/Matrices are fundamental data structures in z^3. Manipulation of such data structures are often done using custom code in most languages. However, z^3 offers a ton of Array member functions that make it a breeze to handle and manipulate such data structures.

For example, take .chunks().

a=1..100;

This creates a list of 100 numbers. Now, let us make them into chunks of 10 each.

a.chunks(10)

gives

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30
31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40
41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50
51	52	53	54	55	56	57	58	59	60
61	62	63	64	65	66	67	68	69	70
71	72	73	74	75	76	77	78	79	80
81	82	83	84	85	86	87	88	89	90
91	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99	100

Simple, isn't it?

The result gives a 10x10 matrix filled with the sequence of numbers from 1 to 100.

Let us say we want to calculate the sum of each row in this 10x10 matrix. The $$ row wise mapping function comes to the rescue.

b=a.chunks(10) b.$$(SUM)

55
155
255
355
455
555
655
755
855
955