From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
To: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
Cc: Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Using list with append
Date: Wed, 09 Nov 2022 18:08:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r0yc2gyc.fsf@rub.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Ev9QUHHi_PsW5YdHdgDB3zDy1fEohlkoSXToWHeQgZ_lQnoYfCVaGUwYGuUF46TzXFSkyoTnPwdKtTAggqQtIkfW9t8K3-GmbkQ1dSBRWCU=@protonmail.com> (Heime's message of "Wed, 09 Nov 2022 12:09:04 +0000")
On Wed, 09 Nov 2022 12:09:04 +0000 Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com> wrote:
> This function makes a list of lists.
>
> (defun pmchart selectr nc)
I assume you meant this: (defun pmchart (descr selectr nc)
> "TODO."
>
> (seq-mapn
> (lambda (p q)
> (message "p: %S" p)
> (list q (append (make-list p "xxxxx")
> (make-list (- nc 1 p) ""))))
> selectr
> descr))
>
> Calling
>
> (pmchart '("Peter" "Paul") [3 2] 5)
>
> gives the list
>
> '(("Peter" ("xxxxx" "xxxxx" "xxxxx" ""))
> ("Paul" ("xxxxx" "xxxxx" "" "")))
>
> But I want to adapt it to get this
>
> '(("Peter" "xxxxx" "xxxxx" "xxxxx" "")
> ("Paul" "xxxxx" "xxxxx" "" ""))
>
> Doing the following did not help
>
> (list (append q (make-list p "xxxxx") (make-list (- nc 1 p) ""))))
You want to append the list of x's to the list containing the name, not
to the name (which is a sequence of characters, so appending to it would
make a list beginning with the numerical values of the characters of the
name):
(append (list q) (make-list p "xxxxx") (make-list (- nc 1 p) ""))
Steve Berman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-09 17:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-09 12:09 Using list with append Heime
2022-11-09 15:26 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-09 15:54 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-11-10 18:02 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-09 17:08 ` Stephen Berman [this message]
2022-11-09 17:19 ` Heime
2022-11-10 14:21 ` Jean Louis
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