On 11 January 2014 01:03, Alan Forrester
<alanmichaelforres...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 10 January 2014 21:06, Colin Yates <colin.ya...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Gosh - my public humiliation continues.  Here is one that actually works:
>>
>> (first (reduce (fn [[results seen] item]
>>                       (let [cnt (get seen item 0)]
>>                         [(conj results (if (> cnt 0) (format-fn item cnt)
>> item))
>>                          (assoc seen item (inc cnt))]))
>>                     [[] {}]
>>                     items))
>> (fact "strings can be made unique"
>>   (s/uniquify ["a" "b" "c"]) => ["a" "b" "c"]
>>   (s/uniquify ["a" "b" "a" "c" "b" "b" "b" "b" "a"]) => ["a" "b" "a_1" "c"
>> "b_1" "b_2" "b_3" "b_4" "a_2"])
>
> My first two suggestions produce unique titles. They don't do what you
> want but they are brief:
> (defn uniquify [a] (map #(str (gensym %)) a))
> (defn uniquify [a] (map-indexed (fn [ind el] (str el "_" ind)) a))
>
> My last suggestion does what you want
> (defn uniquify [a]
>   (loop [res [(first a)] leftover (rest a)]
>     (if-not (empty? leftover)
>       (let [freqy (frequencies res)
>             fl (first leftover)
>             ffl (freqy fl)]
>         (if ffl
>           (recur (concat res [(str fl "_" ffl)]) (rest leftover))
>           (recur (concat res [fl]) (rest leftover))))
>       res)))

Actually, it doesn't work.

Alan

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