Grouping Values
The helpful group-by function can group data based on a predicate, returning a map of the predicate result and a sequence of all the matches to that result. For example, we can create an index of planets by their first character:
| cljapplied/src/ch3/fn.clj | |
| | (defn index-planets |
| | [planets] |
| | (group-by #(first (:name %)) planets)) |
This function returns a map with keys E, J, M, N, S, U, and V. Each value is a sequence of Planet entities for Earth, Jupiter, Mars and Mercury, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus, and Venus.
One common use of group-by is in combination with a predicate that returns a map of true and false keys when both are needed by the containing code.
For example, if we want to split the planets with moons from those without ...
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