gethead
gethead |
Purpose
Synopsis
function gethead(l:list, o:integer):list
Arguments
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l
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A list
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o
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Number of elements to copy if >0 or number of elements to ignore if <0
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Return value
A (partial) copy of the list.
Example
L:=[1,2,3,4,5] L2:=gethead(L,2) ! => L2=[1,2] L2:=gethead(L,-1) ! => L2=[1,2,3,4]
Further information
This function does not alter its input list. If the second parameter is 0 an empty list is returned. If the same parameter is larger than the size of the list the function returns a copy of the original list.
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