Newbie question on arrays and indexing

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Shawn Pearce wrote:

>Try element/2:
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>>T = {1, 2, 3, 4}.
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>{1, 2, 3, 4}
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>>element(1, T).
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>1
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>>element(3, T).
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>3
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>The first item in a tuple is index 1.
>I'm sure there's a function in lists to get the nth item of a list,
>I just haven't had the need to use that one.
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This works, as does the following:
1>T = {{1, 2},{10, 20}}.
2>element(1, element(2,T)).
10

I was just wondering if there were a more graceful way to do it.  I will 
look into more variations on element.

Thanks
W