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sakhunzai
sakhunzai

Reputation: 14470

example usage of clojure.set index function

I looked at docs but its description does not give any hint/example about usage for index function except the following description.

Usage: (index xrel ks)


Returns a map of the distinct values of ks in the xrel mapped to a
set of the maps in xrel with the corresponding values of ks.

Please share some code examples for index function

Upvotes: 2

Views: 165

Answers (1)

Symfrog
Symfrog

Reputation: 3418

There are several examples available on Grimoire. Grimoire often has more extensive examples than the official Clojure docs. 

(use '[clojure.set :only (index)])

;; Suppose you have a set of descriptions of the weights of animals:

user=> (def weights #{ {:name 'betsy :weight 1000}
                       {:name 'jake :weight 756}
                       {:name 'shyq :weight 1000} })


;; You want the names of all the animals that weight 1000. One way to do
;; that uses `index`. First, you can group the set elements (the maps)
;; so that those with the same weights are in the same group.

user=> (def by-weight (index weights [:weight]))
#'user/by-weight

;; index returns a map.  The keys are maps themselves, where {:weight
;; 756} and {:weight 1000} are taken from the maps in the weights set.  The
;; values in the map returned by index are sets that contain map entries
;; from the above weights set.

user=> by-weight
{{:weight 756} #{{:name jake, :weight 756}}, 
 {:weight 1000} #{{:name shyq, :weight 1000} 
                  {:name betsy, :weight 1000}}}

Upvotes: 3

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