There's also:

(->> xs
     (partition-by string?)
     (partition 2)
     (mapcat (fn [[[s] xs]] (for [x xs] [s x]))))


- James


On 1 December 2013 19:39, Ryan <arekand...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Haha, no worries, it happens :)
>
> That seems to work nice as well!
>
> Ryan
>
>
> On Sunday, December 1, 2013 9:36:47 PM UTC+2, john walker wrote:
>>
>> I swear english is my first language. This one isn't elegant, but at
>> least you know you aren't alone:
>>
>> (->> ["foo" 1 "bar" 10 20 "clown" 5]
>>      (partition-by string?)
>>      (partition 2)
>>      (map #(apply concat %))
>>      (map #(let [x (first %)]
>>              (for [y (rest %)]
>>                [x y])))
>>      (reduce into []))
>>
>> On Sunday, December 1, 2013 2:21:14 PM UTC-5, john walker wrote:
>>>
>>> Sorry, I spoke without seeing that you were aware of partition-by.
>>> Here's one that isn't vectorized.
>>>
>>> (def v ["foo" 1 "bar" 10 20 "clown" 5])
>>> (->> v
>>>     (partition-by string?)
>>>     (partition 2)
>>>     (map #(apply concat %)))
>>>
>>> On Sunday, December 1, 2013 2:10:04 PM UTC-5, Ben wrote:
>>>>
>>>> user=> (def v ["foo" 1 "bar" 2 3 "baz" 4])
>>>> #'user/v
>>>> user=> (first (reduce (fn [[res s] e] (if (string? e) [res e] [(conj
>>>> res [s e]) s])) [[] nil] v))
>>>> [["foo" 1] ["bar" 2] ["bar" 3] ["baz" 4]]
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Ryan <areka...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> I have a vector which contains an unknown number of repetitions of the
>>>>> following pattern:
>>>>>
>>>>> String, followed by 1 or more integers
>>>>>
>>>>> For example:
>>>>>
>>>>> String
>>>>> Integer
>>>>> String
>>>>> Integer
>>>>> Integer
>>>>> String
>>>>> Integer
>>>>> Integer
>>>>> Integer
>>>>> String
>>>>> Integer
>>>>>
>>>>> What I am trying to do is to create a vector of pairs which each pair
>>>>> will be the string and the integers followed.
>>>>>
>>>>> Real example:
>>>>>
>>>>> foo
>>>>> 1
>>>>> bar
>>>>> 10
>>>>> 20
>>>>> clown
>>>>> 5
>>>>>
>>>>> should convert to:
>>>>>
>>>>> [[foo 1] [bar 10] [bar 20] [clown 5]]
>>>>>
>>>>> I did try to play around with partition-by, partition and instance?
>>>>> but I couldn't get it quite right.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thank you for your time
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
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>>>> "Human kind has used its intelligence to vary the flavour of drinks,
>>>> which may be sweet, aromatic, fermented or spirit-based. ... Family and
>>>> social life also offer numerous other occasions to consume drinks for
>>>> pleasure." [Larousse, "Drink" entry]
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