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From: tomas@tuxteam.de
To: Andreas Roehler <andreas.roehler@online.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: until-found
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 14:58:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091210135803.GA8534@tomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B20EE79.607@online.de>

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On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 01:50:01PM +0100, Andreas Roehler wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> given a list or a list of lists:
> list shall be returned, if it contains a certain member.
> 
> I'm pretty sure a general form exists, but ignore it.

[...]

> (defun until-found (search-string liste)
>   (let ((liste liste) element)
>     (while liste
>       (if (member search-string (car liste))
>           (setq element (car liste) liste nil))
>       (setq liste (cdr liste)))
>     element))
> 

Have a look at assoc -- it might be what you are looking for.

If you need more flexibility, cl's assoc* (where you can specify, among
other things, the comparison function) might fit your bill.

Regards
- -- tomás
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-10 13:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-10 12:50 until-found Andreas Roehler
2009-12-10 13:58 ` tomas [this message]
2009-12-11 10:33   ` until-found Andreas Röhler
     [not found] <mailman.12661.1260449426.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-12-11 16:10 ` until-found Helmut Eller
2009-12-11 17:35   ` until-found Andreas Röhler

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