I'm not completely sure what you're trying to do, but I think reduce can
help you here. For example:

(reduce
  (fn [acc x]
    (if (odd? x)
        (conj acc x)
        acc))
  []
  [1 2 3 4 5 6])

returns:

[1 3 5]

Reduce is good for when you want iterate over one data structure and
optionally update another data structure.

Timothy

On Mon, Sep 22, 2014 at 12:45 PM, J David Eisenberg <
jdavid.eisenb...@gmail.com> wrote:

> As part of a larger program, I'm testing a function that will turn a
> string of days on which a class occurs (such as "MWF") into a list of seven
> numbers: (1 0 1 0 1 0 0).
> I first translate"TH" (Thursday) to "R" and "SU" (Sunday) to "N" to make
> things a bit easier.
>
> I came up with the following code:
>
> (defn days-number-maker
>   "Recursively compare first item in days of week with
> first item in string of days. If matching, add a 1,
> else add a zero to the result"
>   [all-days day-string result]
>   (if (empty? all-days) (reverse result)
>     (if (= (first all-days) (first day-string))
>       (recur (rest all-days)(rest day-string) (conj result 1))
>       (recur (rest all-days) day-string (conj result 0)))))
>
> (defn days-to-numbers
>   "Change string like MTTH to (1 1 0 1 0 0 0)"
>   [day-string]
>   (let [days (clojure.string/replace
>                (clojure.string/replace day-string #"TH" "R") #"SU" "N")]
>     (days-number-maker "MTWRFSN" days (list))))
>
> The good news: the code works. The bad news: I'm convinced I'm doing it
> wrong, in the moral purity sense of the word. Something inside of me says,
> "You could have just used (map...) to do this the *right* way," but I can't
> see how to do it with (map). So, my two questions are:
>
> 1) Is there such a thing as "the Clojure way," and if so,
> 2) How can I rewrite the code to be more Clojure-ish?
>
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