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Re: list conversion
From: |
Jesper Harder |
Subject: |
Re: list conversion |
Date: |
Tue, 06 May 2003 22:09:01 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
zghuang@bloomberg.net (Z. Huang) writes:
> Given a list ("first" "second" "third"). I'd to convert it to a
> a new list:
> (("" . "first")
> ("" . "second")
> ("" . "third"))
>
> The following lisp code was intended for this purpose, but not working. It
> looks that I missed some very basic stuff (I rarely code in lisp). Can
> anyone point out what is wrong? Thanks in advance.
You could do it like this:
(defun list-conversion (list)
(mapcar (lambda (x) (cons "" x)) list))