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Take—Wolfram Language Documentation

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BUILT-IN SYMBOL

Take[list,n]

gives the first n elements of list.

Take[list,-n]

gives the last n elements of list.

Take[list,{m,n}]

gives elements m through n of list.

Take[list,seq1,seq2,]

gives a nested list in which elements specified by seqi are taken at level i in list.

Details Examplesopen allclose all Basic Examples  (6)

Take the first 4 elements from a list:

Take the last 3 elements:

Take elements 2 through 4:

Take the second element from an Association:

Take all but the first element from an Association:

Take every other element from 2 to 6 from an Association:

Scope  (8)

Take elements from the second to the second-to-last:

Take every other element:

Take the first two rows of a matrix:

Take all rows, and the first two columns:

Take the first two rows, and the last column:

Take a submatrix:

Take every other row and column:

Take the first 4 elements if possible, else as many as are available:

Generalizations & Extensions  (2) Applications  (2)

Pick out a subimage:

Sample every third cell in an image:

Properties & Relations  (5)

Take and Drop are complementary:

Take is often equivalent to Part extraction with Range:

Take is equivalent to Part extraction with Span:

Take gives an array whose first dimensions are its arguments:

Reverse[e] is equivalent to Take[e,{-1,1,-1}]:

Possible Issues  (1)

Take always returns a list, even if it is just taking a single element:

History

Introduced in 1988 (1.0) | Updated in 1999 (4.0) 2000 (4.1) 2002 (4.2) 2003 (5.0) 2014 (10.0) 2015 (10.3)

Wolfram Research (1988), Take, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Take.html (updated 2015). Text

Wolfram Research (1988), Take, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Take.html (updated 2015).

CMS

Wolfram Language. 1988. "Take." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2015. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Take.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (1988). Take. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Take.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_take, author="Wolfram Research", title="{Take}", year="2015", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Take.html}", note=[Accessed: 12-July-2025 ]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2025_take, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={Take}, year={2015}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Take.html}, note=[Accessed: 12-July-2025 ]}


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