[erlang-questions] [correction] Re: Additions to lists module

[Dave Smith]

Yes, exactly. not only is splitwith/2 simpler, it only requires the list to
be traversed once.

2008/11/26 Serge Aleynikov <saleyn@REDACTED>

> Actually for this problem lists:splitwith/2 would do a better job.
>
> Michael McDaniel wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 03:52:15PM -0800, Michael McDaniel wrote:
> >>  Everyone works on different kinds of problems and has their solutions.
> >>  One immediate use I thought of follows.
> >>
> >>  Note that html_tokenise is from Joe Armstrong's www_tools-1.0 on
> trapexit.
> >>
> >>
> >>  {ok, H} = http:request("http://somewebsite.com") ,
> >>  Ht      = html_tokenise:string2toks( element(3, H) ) ,
> >>  Pos     = list_position:pos( Hal, {tagStart,"title"} ) ,
> >>
> >>  {_, Title} = lists:nth( Pos+1, Hal ).
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> >       Pos     = list_position:pos( Ht, {tagStart,"title"} ) ,
> >    {_, Title} = lists:nth( Pos+1, Ht ).
> >
> >
> >  of course, should be Ht for these
> >
> > ~M
> >
> >
> >>  Likely there are other interesting items on a page for which I
> >>  would have interest.
> >>
> >>
> >> ~Michael
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 06:31:11PM -0500, Dave Smith wrote:
> >>>    But I do agree with you on the pos function. I don't think I would
> uses
> >>>    it. Presumably one would want to do something with the position
> after
> >>>    retrieving it, and this would probably mean using it in a function
> that
> >>>    traverses a list a second time.
> >>>    It would be more appropriate in a module like array.
> >>>
> >>>    2008/11/26 Dave Smith <[1]dave.smith.to@[2]gmail.com>
> >>>
> >>>    2008/11/26 Mazen Harake <[3]mazen.harake@REDACTED>
> >>>
> >>>      What is the idea behind pos?
> >>>      Curious because I have never been in a situation where I need to
> >>>      know
> >>>      the actual position of an element since I always assume that the
> >>>      order
> >>>      in a list is always undefined. Perhaps I missed something... do
> you
> >>>      have
> >>>      a practical example?
> >>>      /M
> >>>
> >>>      I'm not following. Lists are ordered and in many cases order is
> >>>      meaningful.  Otherwise you would never have reason to reverse a
> >>>      list.
> >>>      There are many functions in the lists module where the result is
> >>>      dependant on the lists order, and there is precedence for
> functions
> >>>      like foldlwhile; examples (takewhile/2, dropwhile/2, splitwith/2)
> >>>
> >>> References
> >>>
> >>>    1. http://dave.smith.to/
> >>>    2. http://gmail.com/
> >>>    3. mailto:mazen.harake@REDACTED
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