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From: Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How could I modify list element?
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 17:36:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1228840648.405357@arno.fh-trier.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.2319.1228836378.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>

richardeng wrote:
> Hi all,
>     setcar/setcdr is not convenient.
>     In a long list, ex.
>     (setq a '(a b c d e f g))
>     I want to change 'e to 'E.
>     I need a function: (set-list-elt list old-elt new-elt)
> 
>     How? translate list to vector, modify, then turn it back???
> 
>  

Why don't you ...

(let ((list  '(a b c d e)))
   (or
    (and (require 'cl nil t)
	(substitute 'E 'e list))
    (mapcar #'(lambda (elt)
	       (if (eq elt 'e) 'E elt))
	   list)))

-ap


       reply	other threads:[~2008-12-09 16:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.2319.1228836378.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-09 16:36 ` Andreas Politz [this message]
2008-12-09 20:46 ` How could I modify list element? Niels Giesen
2008-12-09 14:15 richardeng
2008-12-09 15:37 ` Alan Mackenzie
2008-12-09 17:43   ` richardeng
     [not found]   ` <mailman.2345.1228845668.26697.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-12-09 20:30     ` Andreas Politz
2008-12-09 17:21 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2008-12-09 17:26 ` Thierry Volpiatto

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