select(ZZ,BasicList,Function) -- select a limited number of elements from a list

select(ZZ,BasicList,Function) -- select a limited number of elements from a list

Synopsis:

Function: select -- select elements from a list or hash table

Input:

an instance of class ZZ.

an instance of class BasicList.

an instance of class Function.

Output:

an instance of class BasicList.

select(n,v,f) -- select at most n elements of the list v that yield true when the function f is applied.

The order of the elements in the result will be the same as in the original list v.

i1 : select(2,[1,2,3,4,5], odd)



o1 = [1, 3]



o1 : Array