# Split a zip

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/split-a-zip/16853>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [October 27, 2018, 9:36am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/split-a-zip/16853 "2018-10-27T09:36:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![mschauer](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mschauer/32/13946_2.png) [@mschauer](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mschauer)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2018, 9:36am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/split-a-zip/16853/1 "2018-10-27T09:36:28Z")

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Zip is its own inverse but not a very useful one. Is there a good replacement for  
`collect(zip(itr...))` for iterators of tuples?

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**Author:** ![Tamas\_Papp](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/tamas_papp/32/25949_2.png) [@Tamas\_Papp](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Tamas_Papp)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2018, 9:45am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/split-a-zip/16853/2 "2018-10-27T09:45:26Z")

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See this issue:  
[https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/13942](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/13942)

There are solutions there, someone just needs to make a PR.