# Transpose of an array of Strings

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**Tags:** strings, arrays\
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`transpose` and `adjoint` are linear algebra operations. If you want to treat your array as a container, use the container operations like `reshape`, `vec` or `permutedims`.

As far as the _why_ goes, the answer is that LinearAlgebra wants to support matrices of matrices and not all LinearAlgebra objects are themselves `::AbstractArray`s — so defaulting to a no-op is subtly error prone and defining a bunch of no-op transposes one-by-one is unsatisfactory. I’m not the biggest fan of this myself, but it is what it is.

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