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The Clojure Workshop

You're reading from  The Clojure Workshop

Product type Book
Published in Jan 2020
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838825485
Pages 800 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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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

Exercise 4.13: Querying the Data with filter

If we think of this CSV data as a database, then writing queries is a question of writing and combining predicates. In this exercise, we will use filter to narrow our dataset down to the exact information we want. Imagine that the journalists on your team are working on a new project dedicated to famous tennis rivalries. As a first step, they've asked you to produce a list of all the tennis matches won by Roger Federer. Let's get started:

  1. Make sure that your project is set up the same way as it was in the previous exercises.
  2. Create a function called federer-wins that provides the CSV processing steps we've already used. Add the calls to select-keys and doall, which will be applied to the data once it has been narrowed down:
    (defn federer-wins [csv]
        (with-open [r (io/reader csv)]
        (->> (csv/read-csv r)
             ...
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