What happened to LinearAlgebra.full?

General Usage
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Hi,

I’m getting an UndefVarError: full not defined for

using OrdinaryDiffEq, RecursiveArrayTools,LinearAlgebra
const Mx = full(Tridiagonal([1.0 for i in 1:N-1],[-2.0 for i in 1:N],[1.0 for i in 1:N-1]))

coming from this blog entry from 2017. Hard to trace back what changed, only found this. But not clear what do do here. Any help is appreciated.

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Ah, okay. In ?Tridiagonal it is stated that the tridiagonal matrix can be converted into a regular matrix by applying Array(). Also, in the context of that code, one shouldn’t even fill the rest of the matrices (see article comments), so one should just remove full.

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As far as I know, you might consider Matrix(x) to be the replacement for full(x). I am not positive, but I think full was removed in 1.0 in favor of Matrix, which is clearer. To be clear, Array also works, just sharing Matrix as somebody who often wants to convert special structures into regular dense matrices while debugging and stuff.

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