Split

Usage

• Split[list] splits list into sublists consisting of runs of identical elements.
• Split[list, test] treats pairs of adjacent elements as identical whenever applying the function test to them yields True.

Notes

• Example: Split[

a, a, b, b, a, a, b

]

• The default function used to test whether elements are identical is SameQ.

• Split can be used to perform run-length encoding.

• See Section 1.8.10 and Section 2.4.4.

• See also: Partition, StringSplit, Union, Flatten, ReplaceList.

• New in Version 3.

Further Examples