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The Clojure Workshop

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Product type Book
Published in Jan 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838825485
Pages 800 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Authors (5):
Joseph Fahey Joseph Fahey
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Thomas Haratyk Thomas Haratyk
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Scott McCaughie Scott McCaughie
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Yehonathan Sharvit Yehonathan Sharvit
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Konrad Szydlo Konrad Szydlo
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface 1. Hello REPL! 2. Data Types and Immutability 3. Functions in Depth 4. Mapping and Filtering 5. Many to One: Reducing 6. Recursion and Looping 7. Recursion II: Lazy Sequences 8. Namespaces, Libraries and Leiningen 9. Host Platform Interoperability with Java and JavaScript 10. Testing 11. Macros 12. Concurrency 13. Database Interaction and the Application Layer 14. HTTP with Ring 15. The Frontend: A ClojureScript UI Appendix

8. Namespaces, Libraries and Leiningen

Activity 8.01: Altering the Users List in an Application

Solution:

  1. Import the clojure.string namespace with use and the :rename keyword for the replace and reverse functions:
    (use '[clojure.string :rename {replace str-replace, reverse str-reverse}])
  2. Create a set of users:
    (def users #{"mr_paul smith" "dr_john blake" "miss_katie hudson"})
  3. Replace the underscore between honorifics and first names:
    (map #(str-replace % #"_" " ") users)

    This will return the following:

    ("mr paul smith" "miss katie hudson" "dr john blake")
  4. Use the capitalize function to capitalize each person's initials in the user group:
    (map #(capitalize %) users)

    This will return the following:

    ("Mr_paul smith" "Miss_katie hudson" "Dr_john blake")
  5. Update the user list by using the string's replace and capitalize functions:
    (def updated-users...
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