NAME indices - indices for specified matrix or association element SYNOPSIS indices(V, index) TYPES V matrix or association index integer return list with up to 4 elements DESCRIPTION For 0 <= index < size(V), indices(V, index) returns list(i_0, i_1, ...) for which V[i_0, i_1, ...] is the same lvalue as V[[index]]. For other values of index, a null value is returned. This function can be useful for determining those elements for which the indices satisfy some condition. This is particularly so for associations since these have no simple relation between the double-bracket index and the single-bracket indices, which may be non-integer numbers or strings or other types of value. The information provided by indices() is often required after the use of search() or rsearch() which, when successful, return the double-bracket index of the item found. EXAMPLE > mat M[2,3,1:5] > indices(M, 11) list (3 elements, 2 nonzero): [[0]] = 0 [[1]] = 2 [[2]] = 2 > A = assoc(); > A["cat", "dog"] = "fight"; > A[2,3,5,7] = "primes"; > A["square", 3] = 9 > indices(A, search(A, "primes")) list (4 elements, 4 nonzero): [[0]] = 2 [[1]] = 3 [[2]] = 5 [[3]] = 7 LIMITS abs(index) < 2^31 LIBRARY LIST* associndices(ASSOC *ap, long index) LIST* matindices(MATRIX *mp, long index) SEE ALSO assoc, mat