# Access elements in an array that are not contiguous
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/access-elements-in-an-array-that-are-not-contiguous/52262
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [December 23, 2020, 7:23am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/access-elements-in-an-array-that-are-not-contiguous/52262 "2020-12-23T07:23:49Z")
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### Author:  [@marouane](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/marouane)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2020, 7:23am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/access-elements-in-an-array-that-are-not-contiguous/52262/1 "2020-12-23T07:23:49Z")
i have some array like this ` x=[2, 1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0]` and i want to show only the first two elements and the last two elements of the array but when i do this `x[1:2 & 7:8]` it shows me this :
```julia
4-element Array{Int64,1}:
2
1
1
1
```
which is not true i don’t know why?
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### Author:  [@jling](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jling)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2020, 7:37am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/access-elements-in-an-array-that-are-not-contiguous/52262/2 "2020-12-23T07:37:34Z")
> [@marouane](#):
>
> 1:2 & 7:8
```julia
julia> 1:2 & 7:8
1:2:7
```
this is actually `1:(2&7):8` thus `1:2:7`
you can’t just do as you feel like and expect Julia to read your mind
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```julia
julia> x = reverse(collect(1:8))
8-element Array{Int64,1}:
8
7
6
5
4
3
2
1
julia> x[[1:2;7:8]]
4-element Array{Int64,1}:
8
7
2
1
```
this may be what you wanted
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### Author:  [@marouane](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/marouane)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2020, 8:07am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/access-elements-in-an-array-that-are-not-contiguous/52262/3 "2020-12-23T08:07:30Z")
yeah that’s exactly the expected output