Another style, using channels for local state, but could been plain old iterators, slight golf warning:
(require '[clojure.core.async :refer [to-chan <!!]]) (defn uniquify [s formatter] (let [g (memoize #(to-chan (cons % (map (partial formatter %) (next (range))))))] (map (fn f [x] ((some-fn #{x} f) (<!! (g x)))) s))) (uniquify ["a" "a" "a" "a" "b" "a_2" "a_3" "a_3_1" "a_3_1" "a"] #(str %1 "_" %2)) ;=> ["a" "a_1" "a_2" "a_3" "b" "a_2_1" "a_3_1" "a_3_1_1" "a_3_1_2" "a_4"] On Friday, 10 January 2014 14:59:10 UTC, 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.