What is the best way to delete strings in a string list that that match certain pattern?
On Fri, 6 Nov 2009, Peng Yu wrote:
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 3:05 AM, Diez B. Roggisch <deets at nospam.web.de> wrote:
Peng Yu schrieb:
Suppose I have a list of strings, A. I want to compute the list (call it B) of strings that are elements of A but doesn't match a regex. I could use a for loop to do so. In a functional language, there is way to do so without using the for loop.
Nonsense. For processing over each element, you have to loop over them, either with or without growing a call-stack at the same time. FP languages can optimize away the stack-frame-growth (tail recursion) - but this isn't reducing complexity in any way. So use a loop, either directly, or using a list-comprehension.
What is a list-comprehension?
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=list+comprehension
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