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c = [3, 4, 5];
b = c.head() // cb = 3

index()

The index() operator returns the index in the array of the first item that matches its argument

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The reduce() operator applies a function, given as its first argument, to members of an array in left associative order. The function should take two arguments.  An optional second argument to the operator is the default value for the reduction.

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If the default value is supplied, reduce() returns the result of applying function to the default value and the first item in the array, then applying the function to that result and the 2nd item, etc. If array contains no items, reduce() returns the default value.

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The function (supplied to the reduce() operator as its first argument) should take at least two arguments. The first argument accumulates the result, starting with the second operator argument, if any, as described above. The function's second argument is each element, in turn, of the array upon which reduce is operating. There is also a third argument, which is the current index in the array, and a fourth argument, which is the entire array.

c = [4, 5, 6];
c.reduce(function(a,b){a + b})     // returns 15
c.reduce(function(a,b){a + b}, 10) // returns 25
c.reduce(function(a,b){a - b})     // returns -7; note left associativity


d = [];
d.reduce(function(a,b){a + b})     // returns 0
d.reduce(function(a,b){a + b}, 15) // returns 15 


m = [76];
m.reduce(function(a,b){a + b})     // returns 76
m.reduce(function(a,b){a + b}, 15) // returns 91

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• Array indices are zero-based.
• The default for the beginning index is 0. slice(j) is the same as slice(0,j)
• A reference to an OOB index (less than 0 or greater than the size of the array - 1) will return null and raise an error eventreturn an empty array []

For example:

a = ["corn","tomato","tomato","tomato","sprouts","lettuce","sprouts"];

c = a.slice(1,4);                   // c = ["tomato","tomato","tomato","sprouts"]
d = a.slice(2);                		// d = ["corn","tomato","tomato"]
g = a.slice(14)                		// dg = undef[]
h = a.slice(0,0);                	// dh = ["corn"]

splice()

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a = [5, 3, 4, 1, 12]
c = a.sort();                         // c = [1, 12, 3, 4, 5]
d = a.sort("reverse");                // d = [5, 4, 3, 12, 1]
g = a.sort("numeric");                // d = [1, 3, 4, 5, 12]
h = a.sort("ciremun");                // d = [12, 5, 4, 3, 1]
e = a.sort(function(a, b) { a < b  => -1 |
                            a == b =>  0 |
                                       1
                          }); // e = [1, 3, 4, 5, 12]
f = a.sort(function(a, b) {a <=> b}; // f == [1, 3, 4,   }); // e = [1, 5, 12]

tail()

The tail() operator returns a new array that is the original array with the first element removed, or an empty array if the original array is empty. For example:

a = [3, 4, 5, 12];
fc = a.sort(function(a, b) {a <=> b}tail(); // fc == [1, 3, 4, 5, 12]

tail()

The tail() operator returns a new array that is the original array with the first element removed, or an empty array if the original array is empty. For example:

a = [3, 4, 5];
c = a.tail(); // c = [4, 5]4, 5]

Note

This note is for the operators which expect a function as their argument: all, any, collect, filter, map, none, and notall. The function provided is called once for each element of the target array, in order, and actually has three arguments passed to it: first, the array element, second, the current index in the array, and third, the entire target array. The last two are rarely if ever needed, but are available for those rare cases. Ordinarily, only the first argument, the array element, is needed.

For example, suppose you needed to know if any element in an array was less than its index in the array.

a = [ 15, 7, 3, 1 ]
b = a.any(function(e,i){e < i}) // b == true because the element at index 3 (1) is less than 3