Hey Greg, welcome to Clojure :)

You might want to take a look at c.c.seq-utils and the clojure cheat
sheet.  Both of these already exist.  See take-while & partition-by

The cheat sheet can be found here:
http://clojure.org/cheatsheet


On Mar 16, 11:12 pm, Greg  Fodor <gfo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just saw that I need to sign the contributor agreement. Will do
> promptly. I additionally have implemented two new functions that I
> believe could fit in clojure-contrib.seq and clojure-
> contrib.combinatorics. The seq function partition-at-fenceposts allows
> you to partition a seq based upon bits flipped in an integer value
> passed in, where 1-bits correspond to partition boundaries, the least
> significant bit being earlier fenceposts in the seq. As such, this
> makes it possible to easily implement a function named partitions for
> clojure-contrib.combinatorics, which yields a lazy seq of all possible
> partitions of a seq.
>
> user=> (partition-at-fenceposts 1 '(1 2 3 4 5))
> ((0) (1 2 3 4))
>
> user=> (partition-at-fenceposts 2 '(1 2 3 4 5))
> ((0 1) (2 3 4))
>
> user=> (partition-at-fenceposts 3 '(1 2 3 4 5))
> ((0) (1) (2 3 4))
>
> user=> (partitions '(1 2 3))
> (((0 1 2)) ((0) (1 2)) ((0 1) (2)) ((0) (1) (2)))
>
> user=> (partitions '(1 2 3 4 5))
> (((0 1 2 3 4)) ((0) (1 2 3 4)) ((0 1) (2 3 4)) ((0) (1) (2 3 4)) ((0 1
> 2) (3 4)) ((0) (1 2) (3 4)) ((0 1) (2) (3 4)) ((0) (1) (2) (3 4)) ((0
> 1 2 3) (4)) ((0) (1 2 3) (4)) ((0 1) (2 3) (4)) ((0) (1) (2 3) (4))
> ((0 1 2) (3) (4)) ((0) (1 2) (3) (4)) ((0 1) (2) (3) (4)) ((0) (1) (2)
> (3) (4)))
>
> implementation:
>
> (defn take-to-first
>   "Returns a lazy sequence of successive items from coll up to
>   and including the point at which it (pred item) returns true.
>   pred must be free of side-effects."
>   [pred coll]
>   (lazy-seq
>    (when-let [s (seq coll)]
>        (if-not (pred (first s))
>          (cons (first s) (take-to-first pred (rest s)))
>          (list (first s))))))
>
> (defn partition-when
>   "Applies f to each value in coll, splitting it each time f returns
>    true. Returns a lazy seq of lazy seqs."
>   [f coll]
>   (when-let [s (seq coll)]
>   (lazy-seq
>     (let [run (take-to-first f s)
>           res (drop (count run) s)]
>         (cons run (partition-when f res))))))
>
> (defn partition-at-fenceposts [b coll]
>   "Partitions coll at fenceposts corresponding to bits in b that are
>   set to 1. Returns a lazy seq of lazy seqs."
>   (let [bits b]
>     (map #(map first %)
>         (partition-when
>           (fn [[i v]] (not (zero? (bit-and (bit-shift-left 1 i)
> bits))))
>           (indexed coll)))))
>
> (defn partitions [coll]
>   "Returns a lazy seq of possible partitions of coll."
>   (map #(partition-at-fenceposts % coll) (range (expt 2 (- (count
> coll) 1)))))
>
> On Mar 15, 1:24 pm, Greg  Fodor <gfo...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi there, I am just learning Clojure and am processing some BER
> > encoded integer values. Basically, the most significant bit of the
> > integer in the stream indicates the split point between integers, and
> > so I was looking into partition-by to see if that would help. Turns
> > out, what I really need are two complementary functions: take-to-first
> > and partition-when. Take-to-first is similar to take-while, but is
> > *inclusive* and also inverts the boolean. For example:
>
> > Clojure=> (take-to-first even? [1 1 1 1])
> > (1 1 1 1)
> > Clojure=> (take-to-first even? [1 1 1 1 2 3 3 3])
> > (1 1 1 1 2)
> > Clojure=> (take-to-first even? [2 2 2 ])
> > (2)
>
> > Additionally, partition-when runs through the seq and partitions it on
> > demand when a predicate is true. (Leaving the entry where it is seen
> > to be true in the current partition:
>
> > Clojure=> (partition-when even? [1 1 1 2 3 3 3 4 3 3 3 4 3 3 3])
> > ((1 1 1 2) (3 3 3 4) (3 3 3 4) (3 3 3))
> > Clojure=> (partition-when even? [1 1 1])
> > ((1 1 1))
> > Clojure=> (partition-when even? [1 1 1 2 3 3 3])
> > ((1 1 1 2) (3 3 3))
> > Clojure=> (partition-when even? [2 2 2 2])
> > ((2) (2) (2) (2))
>
> > These seem to sit aside the current take and partitioning functions
> > since they are basically looking at an truth value that indicates a
> > partition or stopping event that we want to capture and cease moving
> > forward. Here is the source:
>
> > (defn take-to-first
> >   "Returns a lazy sequence of successive items from coll up to
> >   and including the point at which it (pred item) returns true.
> >   pred must be free of side-effects."
> >   [pred coll]
> >   (lazy-seq
> >    (when-let [s (seq coll)]
> >        (if-not (pred (first s))
> >          (cons (first s) (take-to pred (rest s)))
> >          (list (first s))))))
>
> > (defn partition-when
> >   "Applies f to each value in coll, splitting it each time f returns
> >    true. Returns a lazy seq of lazy seqs."
> >   [f coll]
> >   (when-let [s (seq coll)]
> >     (let [run (take-to-first #(f %) s)
> >           res (drop (count run) s)]
> >       (lazy-seq
> >         (cons run (partition-when f res))))))
>
> > I think these could make a good addition to clojure.contrib.seq.
> > Please let me know if there is an easier way to get this in if you
> > agree. Also, please let me know if these are the best ways to write
> > these functions, since I am still a newbie!

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