# Converting a matrix into an array of arrays

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**Category:** General Usage\
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**Created:** [November 1, 2018, 7:01am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/converting-a-matrix-into-an-array-of-arrays/17038 "2018-11-01T07:01:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 1, 2018, 8:48am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/converting-a-matrix-into-an-array-of-arrays/17038/3 "2018-11-01T08:48:39Z")

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A one liner, likely not as efficient as the suggestion above, is  
`mapslices(x->[x], randn(5,5), dims=2)[:]`

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