Editing Array slicing (section)

{{Short description|Computer programming operation}}
{{About|the data structure operation|other uses of slicing|Slicing (disambiguation)}}
In [[computer programming]], '''array slicing''' is an operation that extracts a subset of elements from an [[Array data type|array]] and packages them as another array, possibly in a different [[dimension]] from the original. 

Common examples of array slicing are extracting a substring from a [[string (computer science)|string]] of characters, the "''ell''" in "h''ell''o", extracting a row or column from a two-dimensional array, or extracting a [[vector (mathematics)|vector]] from a [[matrix (mathematics)|matrix]].

Depending on the [[programming language]], an array slice can be made out of non-consecutive elements.  Also depending on the language, the elements of the new array may be [[aliasing (computing)|aliased to]] (i.e., share memory with) those of the original array.