I did consider that but I want to preserve the order of the incoming 
sequence.

On Friday, 10 January 2014 15:22:29 UTC, Laurent PETIT wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Use frequencies to get a map of path => nb of occurrences, then for each 
> entry of the map, create unique names.
> Cannot provide an impl on the uPhine, sorry
>
> Le vendredi 10 janvier 2014, Colin Yates a écrit :
>
>> I have a sequence of file names and I want to make them unique. 
>>  (uniquify ["a" "b" "c" "a"]) => ["a" "b" "c" "a_1"])
>>
>> This is what I have come up with, but surely there is a better way?
>>
>> What would you all do?  Feedback welcome (including the word 'muppet' as 
>> I am sure I have missed something simple) :)
>>
>> (defn uniquify
>>   "Return a sequence, in the same order as s containing every element
>>   of s. If s (which is presumed to be a string) occurs more than once
>>   then every subsequent occurrence will be made unique.
>>
>>   Items will be updated to include an incrementing numeric count using
>>   the specified formatter function. The formatter function will be
>>   given the name and the number and should return a combination of the
>>   two.
>>
>>   The set of unique s's in the returned sequence will be the count of
>>   s's in s."  
>>   ([s] (uniquify s (fn [item duplicates] (str item "_" duplicates))))
>>   ([s formatter]
>>      (let [occurrences (atom {})
>>            register-occurrence (fn [item]
>>                                  (if (get @occurrences item)
>>                                    (swap! (get @occurrences item) inc)
>>                                    (swap! occurrences assoc item (atom 
>> 1)))
>>                                  @(get @occurrences item))
>>            process (fn [item]
>>                      (let [duplicates (dec (register-occurrence item))]
>>                        (if (> duplicates 0)
>>                          (formatter item duplicates)
>>                          item)))
>>            unique-s (map process s)]
>>        unique-s)))
>>  
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