AssociationQ
Examples
Basic Examples (2)Summary of the most common use cases
Association constructed from rules yields a valid object:
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Valid Association object allows extraction of values given keys:
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If arguments are not rules, Association remains unevaluated:
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Association that is not valid has no special properties:
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Wolfram Research (2015), AssociationQ, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/AssociationQ.html.
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Wolfram Research (2015), AssociationQ, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/AssociationQ.html.
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Wolfram Research (2015), AssociationQ, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/AssociationQ.html.
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Wolfram Research (2015), AssociationQ, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/AssociationQ.html.
CMS
Wolfram Language. 2015. "AssociationQ." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/AssociationQ.html.
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Wolfram Language. 2015. "AssociationQ." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/AssociationQ.html.
APA
Wolfram Language. (2015). AssociationQ. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/AssociationQ.html
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Wolfram Language. (2015). AssociationQ. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/AssociationQ.html
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@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_associationq, author="Wolfram Research", title="{AssociationQ}", year="2015", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/AssociationQ.html}", note=[Accessed: 25-May-2025
]}
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@online{reference.wolfram_2025_associationq, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={AssociationQ}, year={2015}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/AssociationQ.html}, note=[Accessed: 25-May-2025
]}