HI, I just posted a question to stackoverflows code review page:http://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/90809/remove-lines-from-a-2d-vec-in-clojure
As there is not much traffic regarding clojure I also double post to this list in the hope to get some good answers. You might respond here or there, whatever you like best. I have some code here that I am very unhappy with. The task I am trying to accomplish is this. Given a 2d vec like this: [[0 2 0] [1 3 5] [3 3 0]] which can contain positive ints including zero I want to remove all _lines_ that are greater zero. Whereas the definition of _line_ is the following: A _line_ is represented by the position n in every vec inside the 2d vec. So my example above has three lines: [0 1 3], [2 3 3] and [0 5 0]. The line that I want to remove from it according to my algortihm is **[2 3 3]** because every element is greater than zero. So my 2d vec would now look like this: [[0 0] [1 5] [3 0]] And finally I want to pad the vecs to their original size filling them with zero for every removed line, so that it looks finally like this: [[0 0 0] [0 1 5] [0 3 0]] This is what I came up with: (defn in? "true if seq contains elm" [seq elm] (some #(= elm %) seq)) (defn not-in? "true if seq does not contain elm" [seq elm] (not (in? seq elm))) (defn all-greater-zero-at "Given a 2-d vec [[0 1] [0 2]] return true if all elements at 'at' are greater than zero" [v at] (not-in? (map #(if (> (nth % at) 0) true false) v) false)) (defn to-be-removed "Returns a seq of positions to be removed (0 3 4)" [v width] (reduce (fn [a b] (if (all-greater-zero-at v b) (conj a b) a)) [] (range width))) (defn remove-at "Removes an element from a 1d vec" [v at] (into [] (concat (subvec v 0 at) (subvec v (+ at 1) (count v))))) (defn insert-at "inserts an element into a 1d vec" [v elm at] (into [] (concat (subvec v 0 at) elm (subvec v at (count v))))) (defn remove-and-replace-all-at [v at] (map #(insert-at (remove-at % at) [0] at) v)) (defn replace-full-by-zero [v width] (reduce (fn [a b] (remove-and-replace-all-at a b)) v (to-be-removed v width))) (defn remove-zeros [v at] (reduce (fn [a b] (conj a (remove-at b at))) [] v)) (defn fill-with-zeros "Takes a 2d vec and pads ith with zeros up to width" [v width] (map #(into [] (concat (take (- width (count (first v))) (repeat 0)) %)) v)) (defn clean-grid "removes all full lines" [fbz tbr] (loop [acc fbz tbr tbr i 0] (if (empty? tbr) acc (recur (remove-zeros acc (- (first tbr) i)) (rest tbr) (inc i))))) (defn remove-full-lines [v width] (let [fbz (replace-full-by-zero v width) tbr (to-be-removed v width) cleaned-grid (clean-grid fbz tbr)] (into [] (fill-with-zeros cleaned-grid width)))) This seems like a lot of code for such a "simple" algorithm and I assume there are a lot of better ways to do that, but just did not come up with a better one, so, please, go ahead and fix it, if you want to :-) Best Regards, Sven -- 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/d/optout.