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A NewBie Question

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• Subject: [mg53582] A NewBie Question
• From: Zhe Hu <iamhuzhe at gmail.com>
• Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 01:59:34 -0500 (EST)
• Reply-to: Zhe Hu <iamhuzhe at gmail.com>
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Is there a way to take parts of a list as follows:

takeParts[{a,b,c,d,e,f,g,h,i}, {2,3,4}]

{{a,b}, {c,d,e}, {f,g,h,i}}

A tedious way might be transforming {2, 3, 4} into {{1,2}, {3,5}, {6,
9}} (by Fold) and then Part/@ onto it. Is there a simpler way to do
it?

Thanks,
Hu Zhe

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