Insert

Consider the list of ordered pairs (lst) below.

Now suppose you want to insert {a1,b1},{a2,b2},{a3,b3}
between the third and fourth ordered pairs. The line below does the trick nicely.

Here Unevaluated is needed since Insert doesn't have a Hold attribute, and we don't want Sequence@@{...} to evaluate until after Insert does it's job.  The use of (Sequence@@) simply strips the head List from the list of ordered pairs.

Notice you can use Insert[expr, elem, {{i1,j1, ...},{i2,j2, ...}, ...}]  to inset an expression at more than one position, but this is very slow if you are inserting at lots (>100) of positions.

Created by Mathematica  (May 16, 2004)

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