# How do retrieve all vectors as from an array of vectors
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-retrieve-all-vectors-as-from-an-array-of-vectors/34288
**Category:** General Usage
**Created:** [February 7, 2020, 8:48am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-retrieve-all-vectors-as-from-an-array-of-vectors/34288 "2020-02-07T08:48:22Z")
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### Author:  [@PyDataBlog](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PyDataBlog)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2020, 8:48am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-retrieve-all-vectors-as-from-an-array-of-vectors/34288/1 "2020-02-07T08:48:22Z")
Hello everyone.
Basically, I have an array of vectors like this:
```julia
a = [[5, 3, 2], [5, 3, 5], [8, 4, 6] ]
which looks like this:
3-element Array{Array{Int64,1},1}:
[5, 3, 2]
[5, 3, 5]
[8, 4, 6]
```
I want to retrieve all the elements (vectors) such that it ends up looking like this:
```julia
b = [[5 3 2]; [5 3 5]; [8 4 6] ]
3×3 Array{Int64,2}:
5 3 2
5 3 5
8 4 6
```
How can I achieve this? Thanks in advance.
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### Author:  [@jonathanBieler](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jonathanBieler)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2020, 8:54am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-retrieve-all-vectors-as-from-an-array-of-vectors/34288/2 "2020-02-07T08:54:03Z")
You can use vertical concatenation :
```
vcat(a'...)
reduce(vcat, a')
```
Or horizontal and then transpose :
```
hcat(a...)'
```
Or even a comprehension:
```
[a[i][j] for i=1:3, j=1:3]
```
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### Author:  [@PyDataBlog](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/PyDataBlog)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2020, 9:06am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-do-retrieve-all-vectors-as-from-an-array-of-vectors/34288/3 "2020-02-07T09:06:38Z")
Perfect!