# Show for vector type that defines matrix getindex

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**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [May 1, 2019, 12:10pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/show-for-vector-type-that-defines-matrix-getindex/23732 "2019-05-01T12:10:29Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 1, 2019, 12:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/show-for-vector-type-that-defines-matrix-getindex/23732/2 "2019-05-01T12:22:03Z")

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The basic problem here is that your `getindex(v::Vector{MyVec}, i::Int, j::Int)` breaks how vectors work. In order to let the same code work with either vectors or single-column matrices, arrays are treated as if they had an infinite number of trailing singleton dimensions:

```julia
julia> x = rand(3)
3-element Array{Float64,1}:
 0.5208526911072409 
 0.42943207563780583
 0.6718262282859668 

julia> x[2,1]
0.42943207563780583

julia> x[2,1,1]
0.42943207563780583

julia> [size(x,i) for i = 1:3]
3-element Array{Int64,1}:
 3
 1
 1

```

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