Editing Array slicing (section)

===2004: [[SuperCollider]]===
The programming language [[SuperCollider]] implements some concepts from [[J (programming language)|J]]/[[APL (programming language)|APL]]. Slicing looks as follows:

<syntaxhighlight lang="sc">
a = [3, 1, 5, 7]           // assign an array to the variable a
a[0..1]                    // return the first two elements of a
a[..1]                     // return the first two elements of a: the zero can be omitted
a[2..]                     // return the element 3 till last one
a[[0, 3]]                  // return the first and the fourth element of a

a[[0, 3]] = [100, 200]     // replace the first and the fourth element of a
a[2..] = [100, 200]        // replace the two last elements of a

// assign a multidimensional array to the variable a
a = [[0, 1, 2, 3, 4], [5, 6, 7, 8, 9], [10, 11, 12, 13, 14], [15, 16, 17, 18, 19]]; 
a.slice(2, 3);             // take a slice with coordinates 2 and 3 (returns 13)
a.slice(nil, 3);           // take an orthogonal slice (returns [3, 8, 13, 18])
</syntaxhighlight>