Purpose
Get
a copy of the last elements of a list.
Synopsis
function gettail(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:=gettail(L,2) ! => L2=[4,5]
L2:=gettail(L,-1) ! => L2=[2,3,4,5]
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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