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 AssociationPartition

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Partition an association into a list of associations

Contributed by: Wolfram Research

ResourceFunction["AssociationPartition"][assoc,n]

partitions the association assoc into a list of nonoverlapping associations of length n.

ResourceFunction["AssociationPartition"][assoc,n,d]

generates associations with offset d.

Details and Options

In ResourceFunction["AssociationPartition"][assoc,args], args follow the same conventions as in Partition[list,args].

Examples

Basic Examples (2) 

Partition into associations of length 2:

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ResourceFunction[ "AssociationPartition"][<|a -> 1, b -> 2, c -> 3, d -> 4, e -> 5, f -> 6|>, 2]
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Partition into associations of length 3 with offset 1:

In[2]:=
ResourceFunction[ "AssociationPartition"][<|a -> 1, b -> 2, c -> 3, d -> 4, e -> 5, f -> 6|>, 3, 1]
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Scope (2) 

Incomplete sublists at the end are by default dropped:

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ResourceFunction[ "AssociationPartition"][<|a -> 1, b -> 2, c -> 3, d -> 4, e -> 5, f -> 6, g -> 7|>, 3]
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ResourceFunction[ "AssociationPartition"][<|a -> 1, b -> 2, c -> 3, d -> 4, e -> 5, f -> 6, g -> 7|>, 3, 1]
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Allow for a "ragged" partition, wherein last elements can be shorter:

In[5]:=
ResourceFunction[ "AssociationPartition"][<|a -> 1, b -> 2, c -> 3, d -> 4, e -> 5, f -> 6, g -> 7|>, UpTo[3]]
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ResourceFunction[ "AssociationPartition"][<|a -> 1, b -> 2, c -> 3, d -> 4, e -> 5, f -> 6, g -> 7|>, UpTo[3], 1]
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Properties and Relations (2) 

AssociationPartition extends Partition to work on associations:

In[7]:=
Partition[{a, b, c, d, e}, 2]
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In[8]:=
ResourceFunction[ "AssociationPartition"][<|a -> 1, b -> 2, c -> 3, d -> 4, e -> 5|>, 2]
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A partitioned List of associations can be re-combined using Association:

In[9]:=
ResourceFunction[ "AssociationPartition"][<|a -> 1, b -> 2, c -> 3, d -> 4, e -> 5, f -> 6|>, 2]
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In[10]:=
Association[%]
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Version History

  • 1.0.0 – 29 May 2019

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