There's nothing wrong with using nth far as I know. On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 11:03 AM, octopusgrabbus <octopusgrab...@gmail.com>wrote:
> In our production development environment, we perform a lot of data > transfers between diverse systems, and most of those transfers involve > comma-delimited (.csv) data. So my first small Clojure applications have > revolved around the clojure-csv library. > > While learning Clojure I have seen the comment that using nth "stinks", > because it creates dependencies. Wanting to do things in a Clojure way, I > have a question. > > If I need to extract a number of columns of a spreadsheet to minimize the > dataset and this happens as the application is reading in and initializing > its data, what should I use to extract those columns other than nth? And, > if I use a series first and rest, isn't that also positional? > > I've thought of ways to re-position the data initially, so comparison > columns between two different spreadsheets that have one unique key column > in common would be accessible with first, for example. However, I would > still need to get at that data by column in order to reposition it, hence > the need for nth. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with > your first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
