# How to assign real/imaginary part of complex array

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**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [May 10, 2018, 4:29pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-assign-real-imaginary-part-of-complex-array/10818 "2018-05-10T16:29:45Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 11, 2018, 2:29am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-assign-real-imaginary-part-of-complex-array/10818/11 "2018-05-11T02:29:45Z")

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You’re timing in global scope. You should wrap your code in a function or, even better, just use [GitHub - JuliaCI/BenchmarkTools.jl: A benchmarking framework for the Julia language](https://github.com/JuliaCI/BenchmarkTools.jl)

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