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From: Benjamin Geer <ben@socialtools.net>
To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] "List.index" or "List.unique" functions?
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 20:01:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4092A27C.1010305@socialtools.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040430175429.GB11118@online.fr>

Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> I have a question: suppose I have a list l1, and I want to create a new
> list l2 with only one copy of any repeated members of the first list
> (eg, l1=[1;2;3;4;3;4;5;6;5] -> l2=[1;2;3;4;5;6])

Here's one way:

let unique ls =
   let uniq_aux new_ls old_elem =
     match new_ls with
       | [] -> [ old_elem ]
       | hd :: tl when hd = old_elem -> new_ls
       | _ -> old_elem :: new_ls
   in
   let sorted = List.sort compare ls in
     List.rev (List.fold_left uniq_aux [] sorted) ;;

Ben

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-04-30 19:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-30 17:54 Rahul Siddharthan
2004-04-30 18:51 ` Martin Jambon
2004-04-30 19:01 ` Benjamin Geer [this message]
2004-04-30 19:07   ` Thanks " Rahul Siddharthan
2004-04-30 19:08 ` Karl Zilles
2004-04-30 19:29   ` Matthieu Sozeau
2004-04-30 20:01     ` Karl Zilles
2004-04-30 20:05   ` Remi Vanicat
2004-04-30 20:47     ` JM Nunes
2004-04-30 20:58       ` Karl Zilles
2004-05-01  1:59   ` [Caml-list] List.rev skaller
2004-05-01  4:18     ` Jon Harrop
2004-05-01  4:38     ` brogoff
2004-05-01  5:12       ` skaller
2004-05-01  7:08         ` William Lovas
2004-05-01  8:10           ` skaller
2004-05-01  8:32             ` Jon Harrop
2004-05-01  9:24               ` skaller
2004-05-02 12:07             ` Andreas Rossberg
2004-05-02 13:29               ` skaller
2004-05-01 10:07         ` Richard Jones
2004-05-01 10:09           ` Nicolas Cannasse
2004-05-02 16:04             ` Brian Hurt
2004-05-01 10:32           ` Jon Harrop
2004-05-01 16:41     ` John Goerzen
2004-05-01 19:11       ` skaller
2004-05-01 10:03 ` [Caml-list] "List.index" or "List.unique" functions? Richard Jones

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