What about:
{:fullname (get result 0), :lastname (get result 1), :firstname (get result
2), :middlename (get result 3)}
If the "get" function can't find a result, it returns nil.
- James
On 1 June 2014 17:09, Glen Rubin <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am doing some text processing using clojure and attempting to extract a
> person's name by regex and then assign it to a map. The result I get takes
> one of several forms:
>
> nil (if i can't find the name)
>
> [fullname]
>
> [fullname lastname]
>
> [fullname lastname firstname]
>
> [fullname lastname firstname middlename]
>
> now, basically want to assign these entries to a map like so {:fullname
> "some name", :lastname "some name", etc...}
>
> if there is no entry than I would like to assign it as nil, e.g.
> {:fullname nil, lastname nil, etc...}
>
> I want to code this in the most proper way. I am thinking I need to
> define a function that works differently based on how long the vector is?
> How do I turn the contents of the vector into function arguments?
>
> Thanks!
>
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