Here's a version using reduce: (defn uniquify [items] (first (reduce (fn [[result count-map] item] (let [n (inc (count-map item 0))] [(conj result (str item "_" n)) (assoc count-map item n)])) [[] {}] items)))
Replace (str item "_" n) with (if (zero? n) item (str item "_" n) if you don't want to append "_0" the first time you encounter a new string On Friday, January 10, 2014 5:12:27 PM UTC+2, Alex Miller wrote: > > I would not use an atom. Think about it as doing a reduce while passing > along a set of the names you've seen so far. You might also look at the > implementation of "distinct" in clojure.core which is similar (you want to > detect duplicates in the same way, but emit new names instead of omitting > dupes). > > > On Friday, January 10, 2014 8:59:10 AM UTC-6, Colin Yates wrote: >> >> 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))) >> > -- -- 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 unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.