Thanks Lee. You are correct there is something wrong with my input to this function that is causing the problem, not the function. Sorry for the error.
On Tuesday, July 8, 2014 8:13:36 PM UTC-7, Lee wrote: > > > Hi Glen, > > You haven't really provided what we would need to replicate your problem. > > Specifically: > > - You call but don't provide definitions for address or is-blank? > > - You refer to unbound symbols some-string and another-string. > > - You don't provide an input for report, or the top-level call you are > making, that produces the problem. > > In addition, your report function has an extra ")" at the end. > > I tried patching up everything in a minimal way but then I don't see a > problem. > > -Lee > > On Jul 8, 2014, at 10:38 PM, Glen Rubin <rubi...@gmail.com <javascript:>> > wrote: > > > I am still having difficulties with this, so let me clarify by showing > some sample code. > > > > > > My fn looks like this: > > > > (defn report [text] > > > > (str > > "string1" > > "string2" > > (apply str (map-indexed (fn [idx itm] (time-text idx itm)) > (filtered-list text)))))) > > > > > > When I invoke spit in order to output a text file using the above > funtion, I only get the first item in my list (filtered-list text) > outputted > > > > Here is the basic code for my fns used above: > > > > > > (defn filtered-list [text] > > (let > > [street (:str (address text)) > > city (:city (address text)) > > state (:state (address text)) > > > > ;actually there's a bunch of other bindings, 3 will suffice for the > example > > > > ] > > > > (remove nil? > > (conj '() > > > > (if-not > > (blank? street) > > (str "ADDRESS: " street)) > > (if-not > > (blank? city) > > (str "CITY: " city)) > > (if-not > > (blank? state) > > (str "STATE: " state)))))) > > > > > > (defn time-text [time-idx text-var] > > (str some-string (hour-min time-idx) another-string)) > > > > ;this uses the clojure time library > > (defn hour-min [idx] > > (format-local-time (plus (local-now) (minutes idx)) > :hour-minute-second)) > > On Tuesday, July 8, 2014 2:28:52 AM UTC-7, Lee wrote: > > > > > > Sometimes you have to manually stamp out laziness, for this among other > reasons. > > > > In some cases I apply the list function to do this: > > > > => (str (map inc (range 10))) > > "clojure.lang.LazySeq@c5d38b66" > > > > => (str (apply list (map inc (range 10)))) > > "(1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10)" > > > > -Lee > > > > > > > On 8 July 2014 09:49, Glen Rubin <rubi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > my-fn takes a number and a string as argument and outputs a string. I > am using map-indexed and my-fn to comprehend a list of items with numbered > index as follows, > > > > > > > > > (map-indexed (fn [idx itm] (my-fn idx itm)) '(list-of-crap)) > > > > > > When i run this on the repl everything works well and I get a single > long string of output. But, I am trying to use the output of this function > in a report and it is not working in that context. > > > > > > The code to generate report looks something like this: > > > > > > (str > > > string1 > > > string2 > > > string3 > > > (map-indexed (fn [idx itm] (my-fn idx itm)) '(listofcrap)) > > > string4....etc... > > > ) > > > > > > The code above will just print out 'clojure-lazy-seq' instead of the > string output. If I try: > > > > > > (apply str (map-indexed (fn [idx itm] (my-fn idx itm)) > '(listofcrap))) > > > > > > Then I get the last item from my list properly formated in the report, > but that's all. How do I print out everything? 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