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Sequence Manipulation

length ?	-	return the length of a sequence
repeat ?	-	repeat an object n times to form a sequence of length n
reverse ?	-	reverse a sequence
append ?	-	add a new element to the end of a sequence
prepend ?	-	add a new element to the beginning of a sequence
flatten ?	-	remove all nesting from a sequence
join ?	-	concatenate all elements of a sequence, with optional delimiter
split ?	-	Split a sequence on the specified delimiter into a number of sub-sequences.
split_any ?	-	Split a sequence on any of the specified delimiters into a number of sub-sequences.
trim ?	-	Trim whitespace from strings.
columnize ?	-	convert a set of sequences into a set of columns
tagset ?	-	create the sequence of integers {1,2..n}
substitute ?	-	replace all instances of a substring
shuffle ?	-	randomise the order of s
permute ?	-	return the nth permute of a given set